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A critical study of Dr. Jose M. de Mesa's contextual theological model focuses on the presuppositions of the lay theologian under study and evaluates the same under the categories of experience and kerygma. The primary motivation of the study is pastoral in the sense that the sources of theology for Anglicans and Episcopalians are : Sacred scriptures, Tradition and Reason. This reveals a "content centered" orientation in doing theology. In the light of this, content necessarily raises the question of context. This, consequently, raises the question : how can we understand and expound the relation between context and content? The researcher first (Chapter II) presented an overview of different models of contextual theology as presented in Stephen B. Bevan's book "Models of contextual theology" that are synthesized in the Synthetic model of doing contextual theology. In the next chapter (Chapter III), the researcher presents Jose M. de Mesa : the person; the people and events that influenced his model of doing contextual theology; and, his works. The theological presupposition - revelation in and through experience - and hermeneutical presupposition - experience as contact with reality together with an interpretation - followed. Chapter IV presents Jose M. de Mesa's hermeneutics of aapreciation and his last presupposition, namely : hermeneutics of mutual interaction. The work end with a critique of Jose M. de Mesa's presuppositions using the categories of experience and kerygma.