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Reading Theology from the Margins [Paperback]
Author
Miguel A. De La Torre
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
Westminster John Knox
Published
September 2011
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Beyond the Pale: Reading Theology from the Margins
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How should Origen, Anselm, Luther, Wesley, Kierkegaard, Barth, and Whitehead be read today, in light of postcolonial theory and twenty-first-century understandings? This book offers a reader-friendly introduction to liberation theology by having scholars "from the margins" explore how questions of race and gender should be brought to bear on thirty classic theologians. Each short chapter gives historical background for the thinker, describes that thinker's most important contributions, then raises issues of concern for women and persons of color.
Contributors include Rita Nakashima Brock, Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan, Harold J. Recinos, M. Shawn Copeland, Kwok Pui-Lan, Joerg Rieger, and many others.
Author
Miguel A. De La Torre
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
Westminster John Knox
Published
September 2011
Weight
473g
Page Count
304
Dimensions
153 x 229 x 19 mm
ISBN
9780664236793
ISBN-10
0664236790
Eden Code
4014608
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Author/Creator: Miguel A. De La Torre
ISBN: 9780664236793
Publisher: Westminster John Knox
Release Date: September 2011
Weight: 473g
Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 19 mm
Eden Code: 4014608
11 years ago
It seems that those beyond the pale in this instance are the contributors to this collection of essays, not those theologians whose work they examine. Often the criticism of the writer directed at his or her subject seems not only harsh, but far fetched, and certainly unfair. St Irenaeus for example is accused of ‘otherness’, in that he began the Christian tradition of branding one or more opponents as ‘heretics’. In what sense is this accusation justifiable? Juan Ginés de Sepulveda the opponent of Bartolomé de Las Casas, made the wrong choices with regard to slavery and colonialism in the New World. Given his philosophical stance this horrifying is comprehensible, but with the benefit of hindsight disastrous for the peoples of the New World. These two examples illustrate the problem: are writers to be condemned for questions they did not ask, on issues they were either unaware of, or accepted as part of the very fabric of their society?
Too many of these theologians seem to have been tried, condemned, and punished in absentia.
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