This book attempts to calrify some elements of Christology in the Philippine context. After stating the need of incarnating Christ in the local culture, the methodology is explained, namely, that the people are the best contextualizers of theology. The practices of the believers of a given culture have an implied theology. The theologians’s role is to explicitate and refine the implied theology in the peopels’s practices.
Four chapters are devoted on the search of models by studying the phenomena of how locally founded sects, folk Christians, and believers in official forms of Christianity contextualize Christ, power, and the local community. A synthesis of the various models serves as a basis for theological reflection.
Various disciplines, such as sociology, anthropology, history, and philosophy are used in dialogue with theology. The interdisciplinary nature of the work is in accordance with recent trends on how theologizing should be done.
The book is not only useful for the classroom but also for all those who wish to make Christ the Filipino way.