
Saved by Lael Johnson and
Jesus and the Disinherited
Saved by Lael Johnson and
Christian theology is language about the liberating character of God's presence in Jesus Christ as he calls his people into being for freedom in the world.
the death of the man on the tree has radical implications for those who are enslaved, lynched, and ghettoized in the name of God and country. In order to do theology from that standpoint, they must ask the right questions and then go to the right sources for the answers. The right questions are always related to the basic question: What has the gos
... See moreevaluate past interpreters of the faith. Since oppression of the weak by the powerful is one of those elements, we can put the critical question to Athanasius, Augustine, or Luther: What has the gospel of Jesus, as witnessed in Scripture, to do with the humiliated and the abused? If they failed to ask that question or only made it secondary in thei
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