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Theological discourses are a rumination of the lived cultural, and contextual experiences. The lived context includes historical, social, legal, and racial imbalances and how such experiences encounter Biblical interpretations/ hermeneutics. The sitz Im leben catapults academia, clergy, and ordinary people to develop theological frameworks that respond to the livid experiences. The theological thoughts and names of Yahweh emanated from similar livid experiences. The prevailing contextual theologies such as liberation, Africa, Black, womanist, reconstruction, and feminist theologies shot from the similar settings. African scholars such as John Mbiti, Desmond Tutu, Gerald West, Regies Gunda, Jesse Mugambi excelled from the contextual theological framework. Their reflections reveal the voices in the society juxtaposed with practical theology. These resultant theologies are, “a picture of what happens at the intersection of the arteries” [Schreitter, Contextual theology: Skills and practices of Liberation faith. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (2021), 9]. A historical reading of theologies shows the influences of historical experiences and racial imbalances that could help readers, observers, to develop hermeneutical lenses of contextual theologies and hermeneutics. Zimbabwe experienced racial and tribal imbalances and injustices such as, Gukurahundi, Murambatsvina, and Fast Track Land Reform (FTLR), such that expectation grew for the church in Zimbabwe promote “situated theologies or local theologies.” [Schreitter, Contextual theology: Skills and practices of Liberation faith. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (2021), 1]. The research calls for Zimbabwe’s church, researchers, and academia to develop localized, lived contextual thinking to address skeletons in the cupboard against of racism and tribalism. The papers argues that a localized theological thinking promote “paradigm shift in doing theology” [Bell, Liberation theology: After the end of history. The refusal to ease suffering. Routledge (2001), 45], local theological hermeneutics, and promote incarnational ministry of the church.

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Race, Church and Theology in Zimbabwe: Rethinking Racial Dynamics Theologically in the Post-Independence Zimbabwe. Towards Developing Contextual Theological Frameworks

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    2026年

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  • Dzikamai Mundenda

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Theological discourses are a rumination of the lived cultural, and contextual experiences. The lived context includes historical, social, legal, and racial imbalances and how such experiences encounter Biblical interpretations/ hermeneutics. The sitz Im leben catapults academia, clergy, and ordinary people to develop theological frameworks that respond to the livid experiences. The theological thoughts and names of Yahweh emanated from similar livid experiences. The prevailing contextual theologies such as liberation, Africa, Black, womanist, reconstruction, and feminist theologies shot from the similar settings. African scholars such as John Mbiti, Desmond Tutu, Gerald West, Regies Gunda, Jesse Mugambi excelled from the contextual theological framework. Their reflections reveal the voices in the society juxtaposed with practical theology. These resultant theologies are, “a picture of what happens at the intersection of the arteries” [Schreitter, Contextual theology: Skills and practices of Liberation faith. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (2021), 9]. A historical reading of theologies shows the influences of historical experiences and racial imbalances that could help readers, observers, to develop hermeneutical lenses of contextual theologies and hermeneutics. Zimbabwe experienced racial and tribal imbalances and injustices such as, Gukurahundi, Murambatsvina, and Fast Track Land Reform (FTLR), such that expectation grew for the church in Zimbabwe promote “situated theologies or local theologies.” [Schreitter, Contextual theology: Skills and practices of Liberation faith. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (2021), 1]. The research calls for Zimbabwe’s church, researchers, and academia to develop localized, lived contextual thinking to address skeletons in the cupboard against of racism and tribalism. The papers argues that a localized theological thinking promote “paradigm shift in doing theology” [Bell, Liberation theology: After the end of history. The refusal to ease suffering. Routledge (2001), 45], local theological hermeneutics, and promote incarnational ministry of the church.