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Kelly Menzel is an Aboriginal woman from the Adelaide Hills and a keeper of ancestral Indigenous Knowledge. She is a nurse by trade and a healer by vocation who is currently completing her PhD and working as a university lecturer.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
by the truth, we are accountable to black people. What does it mean to speak the truth from a black theological perspective, that is, what are the sources and the content of theology? To explore this question we must begin by exploring the theological function of the black experience.
James H. Cone • God of the Oppressed
of the land. Here theologians recognize the passionate character of theological language. It is a language of celebration and joy that the freedom promised is already present in the community's struggle for liberation.
James H. Cone • God of the Oppressed
Some theologies say it is not an individual but a collective people who bear the image of God. I quite like this, because it means we need a diversity of people to reflect God more fully. Anything less and the image becomes pixelated and grainy, still beautiful but lacking clarity. If God really is three parts in one like they say, it means that Go
... See moreCole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
Gimbutas has pointed out that the shape of the bull’s head is exactly the same anatomically as a woman’s uterus and fallopian tubes and that the ancient women clearly knew this
Vicki Noble • Shakti Woman: Feeling Our Fire, Healing Our World
My point is that the genre itself is the problem. As long as Christian scholars insist that they are simply “describing” the theology that is really “in” the text itself, and they arrive at their conclusions using historical criticism, as long as the “meaning” they claim to “find” in the text is supposed to be also what the ancient author “intended
... See moreDale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
The gospels are revealed as quite sophisticated documents, and if we wish to retain the Bultmannian paradigm we must invent ever more cunning sub-theories to account for them as they actually are. The great irony of this total position, seen from the perspective I shall advance, is that it regards genuinely mythological language (apocalyptic) as th
... See moreN. T. Wright • Jesus Victory of God V2: Christian Origins And The Question Of God
This will be a theme of my book: modern theologies of the New Testament were failures from a Christian point of view precisely because what they ended up offering was bad history, bad theology, or both.