Shoki Coe: An Ecumenical Life in Context by Jonah Chang

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Shoki Coe was an influential and important Christian thinker who impacted ecumenics and was the first proponent of contextualization.

This book fills in the tumultuous biography behind his thoughtful and migratory life: Grew up in Taiwan, studied philosophy in Imperial Japan, then theology in England, and so on. American Christian would go on to use the word “contextualization” without understanding Coe’s original, groundbreaking work.

Any person interested in contextualization should start by reading the 1973 and 1974 articles of Coe in the journal Theological Education.

And then, read this book. I was fortunate to find it on archive.org, which also gives you the option to listen to the text being read to you, though the AI reader is far from perfect.

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