1. Urban Theological Foundations
Is God or was God?
Is God or does God?
Is God incarnate or cosmic?
Is God a holistic Story teller or a rationalist philosopher?

2. Epistemology of MATUL
The MATUL is based of a different understanding of knowledge and theology to that of modernist systematic theology
It does not grow from logical Catholicism
The centre of theology is not systematic theology
Systematic theology is one type of contextual theology from Western Europe

3. MATUL Based on Urban Contextual Theology
Poor people are largely oral learners.
They are story-tellers not linear Aristotolean logicians
Jesus reached the poor through oral techniques
Storytelling, parables, proverbs,

4. MATUL Theological Process
Every course in the degree is a theological course
But we utilise a “transformational conversations” approach
We start with situations in the slums and the stories of those situations then reflect on parallel Biblical stories to understand Biblical praxis for those situations

5. Jesus, Paul & Plato
1 Cor 1:30 Paul trained by Gamalial, disciple of Plato and Socrates, as well as Hebrew rabbi
Paul rejects philosophic knowledge approach
Centers on wisdom
Christ is our wisdom
Holy Spirit as centre of revelation

6. Elements of a Web of Belief

7. Part of New Global Theologies
This is part of a trend in developing global theologies around the world in developing nations and represents an information age tribal/global culture 21st century shift.

9. Beyond Dialogue: Transformational Conversations
The Bible is stories (narrative)
Theology is stories
Theology is conversations
Hui for migrant ethnic leaders
2nd generation kids
Role of the theologian as thematizer
The issue, decoding the issue in the midst of the stories in small groups
Integration of the issue

10. Transformational Conversation on an Issue
4.Pneumatological to City Transformational Conversation
2.Evang/Pentecostal Pneumatological Conversation
3.Postmodern/ Modern City Conversation
5.A Journey of Understanding the Issue
1.Entrance Stories
Theological Analysis
Structures as Conversations
New Faith Story
Social Analysis