A Listening Paradigm for the North American Church in a Globalized World

Abstract

The Western world quickly continues to globalize, and the North American Church continues to grow less homogenous. This is something that ought to be celebrated, but the Church faces an important question: “When faced with hermeneutical controversy, from which culture do we derive our norms?” In the Western Church, norms have typically been set by whiteness and masculinity. The author proposes a paradigm for listening to our siblings from around the world through the work of Palestinian Christian, Naim Ateek.