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Intercultural Theology, is a growing discipline in Theology, that incorporates into the process of theologizing the principles and sensitivities of intercultural communication. The term was first used by a triad of scholars who were connected with each other on the basis of their research interests: Walter Hollenweger, Hans Jochen Margull and Richard Friedli, began a trilingual theological series Studies in the intercultural History of Christianity. This discipline has acquired its identity, its name and its place within Christian Theological framework only from 1975. Today there are many scholars who have contributed to the ongoing research - just to take note of a few of them, Theo Sundermeier, Werner Ustorf, David Bosch, Robert Schreiter, Volker Kuster, Frans Wijsen, Noerbert Hintersteiner, Guen Seok Yang, Wesley Ariarajah, Felix Wilfred and others.

In short, Intercultural Theology can be understood as that method or perspective of theology that takes the space between cultures seriously and seeks to locate theology right there. Every culture has its original and typical sensitivities, and a religion or faith cannot encounter culture without making some impact on it. Intercultural Theology says that this impact has to be taken into consideration and if faith has to be true and authentic it has to work on that culture, taking the flavour of the culture to itself and affecting the culture with its foundation beliefs and convictions, thus changing its existence forever. In this time of postmodernity where 'culture' cannot be found in its purity and impenetrable state, the interculturality gains space, and this interculturality has to be theologically made sense of. The vice versa is true too, in as much as theology has to be made sense of interculturally, to really understand it fully and benefit out of it.