Pub Date : 2023-06-16DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2023.2224142
Matt R. Jantzen
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Pub Date : 2023-06-15DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2023.2223463
D. T. Everhart
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Pub Date : 2023-06-14DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2023.2223032
Timothy R. Judson
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2023.2228621
Anthony G. Reddie
A. M. Ranawana’s new book is an exciting and important summation of the theological and ethical resources that have been created over the past 50 years that have sought to help us to rethink our relationship to the earth. Until quite recently there has been a critical disjunction between ecological theologies emerging from the technological “Global North” and Contextual theologies of liberation that have emerged from the so called “Global South”. A Liberation for the Earth is the fruit of many years of study and reflection from the author, affectionately known amongst her friends as “Anu”. She states
A. M. Ranawana的新书是对过去50年来创造的神学和伦理资源的一个令人兴奋和重要的总结，这些资源试图帮助我们重新思考我们与地球的关系。直到最近，从技术发达的“全球北方”出现的生态神学和从所谓的“全球南方”出现的解放语境神学之间一直存在着严重的脱节。《地球的解放》是作者多年研究和思考的成果，她的朋友们亲切地称她为“阿努”。她说
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2023.2228623
T. Walker
ABSTRACT This descriptive, critical, and constructive review reveals that the structure and content of A Voice in the Wilderness: A Pioneering Biologist Explains How Evolution Can Help Us Solve Our Biggest Problems (2022) by Joseph L. Graves Jr. resembles the structure and content of Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (1967) by Martin Luther King Jr. Accordingly, as advanced by Graves, and by his great predecessor – Ernest Everett Just, evolutionary biology is not incompatible with theology. And, as advanced by Anna Julia Cooper and others, black womanist theologians pioneered black theological appreciation for evolution and environmental justice.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2023.2232164
Sarah Shin
ABSTRACT This paper interrogates critical divergence in interpreting the cross and atonement between James Cone and Karl Barth – and their related ethics. Cone rejects atonement theories and embraces the cross as an interpretative symbol that speaks to the suffering of Black Americans. In contrast, Barth resists interpreting the cross as a symbol and refuses to interpret the cross separately from the atonement. These divergences lead to different conceptions of sin, salvation, and ethical response. Despite their dissimilarities, I argue that Cone and Barth demonstrate a surprisingly similar kind of ambiguity when it comes to ontology and ethics: Cone blurs ontological Blackness and symbolic Blackness while Barth emphasizes divine ontology in a manner that makes it difficult to address of the material, post-colonial world. I conclude, by demonstrating how these ambiguities in both thinkers create challenges to the concrete addressing of ethical concerns, such as reparations in today’s world.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2023.2223082
Taido J. Chino
ABSTRACT This essay considers the issue of human freedom in the theologies of Karl Barth and James Cone. It will become evident that Barth sees human freedom as derivative of the liberative work of the God who loves in freedom. This understanding of human freedom subverts philosophically inflected versions of human freedom which tend to see self determination as something inherent to human existence. Without denying the need for a freedom grounded in divine action, Cone presses for an understanding of human freedom which is expressed in the particular situation of an oppressed black community embracing socio-political liberation from a society that would seek to deny them of it. The essay concludes that wholesale rejections of Eurocentric theologies fail to pay attention to complicated dynamics of how those working within that tradition are offering critical appraisals of it.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2023.2228620
A. Barrett
There is a growing body of theology written by White theologians (that is, theologians who are racialized as White, as I am) who are critically conscious of our entanglement in the dehumanising, death-dealing dynamics of whiteness. Growing, but still desperately small; and most of what there is, is written from the particular national context of the USA. Unlearning White Supremacy is another such contribution to the field, but it is a significant one, which deserves to be read more widely. Alex Mikulich is a Roman Catholic lay minister and theologian, who writes “as a partner, parent, scholar, and activist,” out of his own “personal, spiritual, and political experience of parenting biracial, African American children and being [a] member of Black Catholic parishes in San Francisco, California; Hartford, Connecticut; and New Orleans, Louisiana” (xv). A reworking of essays written by the author between 2012 and 2021, the book is partly a presentation of the colonial history of anti-Black White Supremacy, and its entanglement with the theology and missionary activity of the Roman Catholic church (Part I); and partly a collection of reflections on the possibilities, for White Christians, of thinking, praying and acting differently (Part II). Mikulich has read widely, and draws on the work of (among others) James Baldwin, W.E.B. DuBois, Walter Mignolo and Pius Onyemechi Adiele (a historian of Roman Catholic involvement in slavery) in the earlier historical sections; and Black Roman Catholic theologians Bryan Massingale and M. Shawn Copeland, White theologians Thomas Merton and Walter Brueggemann in Part II, which concludes with some (important but tangential) reflections on “degrowth” in the company of Pope Francis and economic anthropologist Jason Hickel. Where Part I traces some of the development of a “white habitus” characterised by “[t]he normalization ofWhite physical, social, and moral separation from Black people,” Part II outlines three tactics intended to “unlearn” these “White self-segregating strategies” (49): firstly, engaging experiences of “impasse” as potentially transformative, leading to a deepening of empathy, lament and solidarity; secondly, pursuing a “truthful remembering” which results in reparation, including (but not limited to) economic redistribution; and lastly, embracing an “ecological intimacy” to resist the capitalist “growthism” that is entangled with colonialism’s past and present. It is these three tactics that contribute, for Mikulich, to “a spirituality for racial liberation” (the book’s subtitle), and for this White English Anglican reader they both highlight the gifts and the weaknesses of the book as a whole. One of the particular gifts that this book offers is a brief introduction to the work of Constance FitzGerald, and a reflection on its implications for White Christians. FitzGerald, a White Roman Catholic theologian and Carmelite sister, builds on the writings of St John of the Cross to offer profound reflec
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2023.2223511
M. Yorke
ABSTRACT James Cone’s assertion that Christ is Black seems at odds with Karl Barth’s retrieval of Kierkegaard’s “infinite qualitative distinction” between God and creation. Both were concerned with the sociopolitical implications of theology. Barth saw the impulse to make some human capacity the prompt or measure of divine revelation as directly implicated in the rise of German nationalism, while Cone laboured to understand what the protestant liberalisms and neoorthodoxies of his graduate education could possibly mean for Black victims of White racism. In claiming that Christ is Black, did Cone not breach the infinite qualitative distinction between God and humans – is Cone’s Black Christology triumphalist? I argue, rather, that Cone’s Black Christology not only escapes the charge of triumphalism, but actually resists triumphalism more successfully than Barth’s because of its grounding in Christ’s incarnational identification with oppressed humanity within history; a grounding which implicates Cone’s subject position without necessarily valorising it.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2023.2233305
Tim Hartman
ABSTRACT Unreflective notions of chosenness and divine election have been (mis)used to defend racist and colonial abuses. Reading together James Cone’s understanding of the Oppressed as the Elect and Karl Barth’s understanding of all humanity as elect in the Elect One, Jesus Christ, generates an understanding of how the flourishing of all peoples is possible when the particular, specific contexts of all peoples are addressed. Instead of abusing notions of chosenness and divine election to justify oppression, a rehabilitated understanding of chosenness and universal election can be a tool of antiracist, anticolonial theologies. Cone and Barth sought to communicate hope in their specific contexts through appeals to God’s gracious favour. Such hope remains possible today.
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