Abstract
This essay argues that indigenous Christian theologians are justified in expanding their canonical resources to include the ancestral “Testaments” of their own people groups, and scripture itself provides a precedent. The book of Genesis reveals a pattern of respect for the distinctive religion of the ancestors. And contrary to a reading of Paul which has Galatians erase distinctive cultures, the body of Christ is as much Greek as Jew, as much Pitjantjatjara as Anglo-Celtic. Theology needs, however, more than the serial addition of ethnicities, to work with postcolonial understandings of cultural hybridity and self-limiting practices of “kenotic” listening - to attend within the body of Christ to the particularity of all the songlines which have become, or may become, incorporated into our life together.