Racism and God-Talk: A Latino/a Perspective2011 Winner of the Book Awards Contest in the Discipline of Theology Presented by Alpha Sigma Nu |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 51
... divine judgment upon the sins of a culture. H. Richard Niebuhr's classic text, Christ and Culture (1951), establishes five paradigms for understanding Christ's relationship to culture: Christ against culture, Christ of culture, Christ ...
... divine providence—for it is in the context of the historical church that God has chosen to reveal God's self. Canon has both formative and normative functions because it involves a continual exchange between the individual and the ...
... divine act are themselves human acts of interpretation and by definition culturally specific. Because theological discourse is human language about God, it cannot limit God's freedom, so God's self-revelation always remains mystery ...
... divine Word, so from a human perspective there is no guarantee that church doctrine will not slip into error and disobedience. Theological proclamation is always uncertain action. Only insofar as the church continues to listen ...
... divine Word or is governed by lesser cultural, historical, and political idols. God's promise to the church is that God will speak in the preaching and proclamation of the church. Unless the church wants to disown this promise, it must ...
Contents
1 | |
23 | |
The Theological Response | 151 |
Toward a Mestizo Church | 236 |
Notes | 251 |
Index | 291 |
About the Author | 297 |