Racism and God-Talk: A Latino/a Perspective2011 Winner of the Book Awards Contest in the Discipline of Theology Presented by Alpha Sigma Nu |
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... salvation in Christ—the fact remains that Origen and other church fathers equated “Ethiopia” and black skin with a spiritually unregenerate state, even extending the metaphor to the point that salvation 30 Beyond Black and White.
... salvation becomes linked with whiteness.14 The church fathers allegorized biblical references to Ethiopians (in the LXX and New Testament) as symbols for sin, going so far as to depict devils as black Ethiopians; nevertheless ...
... freedom and salvation” described by the apostle Paul.39 Yet Fiorenza is careful to differentiate the promised eschatological kingdom from the realities of church life, lamenting the “failure 40 Beyond Black and White.
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Contents
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The Theological Response | 151 |
Toward a Mestizo Church | 236 |
Notes | 251 |
Index | 291 |
About the Author | 297 |