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Womanist Midrash: A Reintroduction to the Women of the Torah and the Throne
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Patriarchy exists in the Bible because the Bible was written in a patriarchal world.
Beth Allison Barr • The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
my basic theological perspective—that the God of biblical faith and black religion is partial toward the weak.
James H. Cone • God of the Oppressed
Mary Oliver Wild Geese
phys.unm.edu
The Bible was written
James H. Cone • God of the Oppressed
She wanted faculty and students to join her and guide her in reclaiming and retrieving what had been broken into pieces and scattered to the wind—the sounds, sensibilities, wisdom, knowledge, and life strategies of multiple peoples made black by a colonialist brush. But no one understood this as theological work to be done.
Willie James Jennings • After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging (Theological Education between the Times (TEBT))
The church teaches what it believes to be true.
Beth Allison Barr • The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
Throughout black history Scripture was used for a definition of God and Jesus that was consistent with the black struggle for liberation.