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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... slave or free, there is no longer male or female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus” (Gal. 3:27–28, NRSV). Today's church, while recognizing that questions of ethnic identity in the ancient world differ greatly from modern ...
... slavery became almost synonymous with blackness as the practice of using physical traits to differentiate the ... Slave Law of 1850. If political historians have interpreted the Civil War as the nation's first major constitutional ...
... slavery in this country brands your republicanism as a sham, your humanity as a base pretence, and your Christianity as ... slave trade.5 Medieval and premodern prejudices traceable to Jewish, Christian, and Muslim attitudes about ethnic ...
... slavery, yet few studies have explicitly examined how the confessional commitments of these faith traditions might contribute to—or counter—a racist worldview. This project undertakes a critical examination of explicitly theological ...
... slave or free, male or female but all are one in Christ Jesus, our present reality is tainted by sin and relationships of domination persist. Therefore, a genuinely Christian use of mestizaje must not only trust in the unseen hope of ...
Contents
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The Theological Response | 151 |
Toward a Mestizo Church | 236 |
Notes | 251 |
Index | 291 |
About the Author | 297 |