Despite the current rise in evangelicals focusing on justice work as an element of their faith, evangelical theologians have not adequately developed a theological foundation for this kind of activism.Evangelical Theologies of Liberation and Justice fills this gap by bringing together the voices of academics, activists, and pastors to articulate evangelical liberation theologies from diverse perspectives. Through critical engagement, these contributors consider what liberation theology and evangelical tenets of faith have to offer one another.
Evangelical thinkers—including Soong-Chan Rah, Chanequa Walker-Barnes, Robert Chao Romero, Paul Louis Metzger, and Alexia Salvatierra—survey the history and outlines of liberation theology and cover topics such as race, gender, region, body type, animal rights, and the importance of community. Scholars, students, and churches who seek to engage in reflection and action around issues of biblical justice will find here a unique and insightful resource. Evangelical Theologies of Liberation and Justice opens a conversation for developing a specifically evangelical view of liberation that speaks to the critical justice issues of our time.
Cuprins
Introduction (Mae Elise Cannon and Andrea Smith)
Part I: Liberation Methodologies
1. Centered Versus Bounded: Moving Beyond Divide and Conquer Strategies for Liberation (Paul Louis Metzger)
2. Evangelical Theologies of Liberation (Soong-Chan Rah)
3. Is It Time for a Womanist Theology of Reconciliation? (Chanequa Walker-Barnes)
Part II: Engagement with Liberation Theology Movements
4. Toward a Perspective of ‘Brown Theology’ (Robert Chao Romero)
5. Justicia Familiar: Misión Integral in the United States (Alexia Salvatierra)
Part III: Rethinking Sin
6. A Born-Again Theology of Liberation (Andrea Smith)
7. The Groaning Creation: Animal Liberation and Evangelical Theology (Sarah Withrow King)
8. Holy and Acceptable: Liberation from Evangelical Fat Shame (J. Nicole Morgan)
9. Liberation: Self and Community in Relationship (Terry Le Blanc and Jeanine Le Blanc)
Part IV: Theological Resources from the Margins
10. Lean In to Liberating Love: The Birth of Evangelical Theology of Liberation at Gordon-Conwell’s Center for Urban Ministerial Education (Peter Goodwin Heltzel, Pablo A. Jiménez, and Emmett G. Price III)
11. Toward an Indian Liberation Theology for the Shudra and Dalit (Rajkumar Boaz Johnson)
12. Strange Freedom: Liberation for the Sake of Others (Mae Elise Cannon)
Part V: Rethinking Our Evangelical Heritage
13. Liberating Barabbas: And the Things That Make for Peace (Drew G. I. Hart)
14. Jubilee, Pentecost, and Liberation: The Preferential Option of the Poor on the Apostolic Way (Amos Yong)
15. Sacramental Theology (Dominique Du Bois Gilliard)
Contributor Biographies
Scripture Index
Despre autor
Andrea Smith (Ph D, University of California) is a professor of ethnic studies at UC Riverside. She is the author of Native Americans and the Christian Right: The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances, Native Americans and the Christian Right, and Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide. She is also the coordinator for Evangelicals 4 Justice and a board member for NAIITS, an indigenous learning community. Previously, she served as the coordinator of the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians. She lives in Long Beach, California.Mai multe cărți electronice de la același autor (i) / Editor
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