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The black experience and the Bible together in dialectical tension serve as my point of departure today and yesterday. The order is significant. I am black first—and everything else comes after that.
James H. Cone • God of the Oppressed
Scott D. Allen and Darrow L. Miller Published by the Disciple Nations Alliance
Stan Guthrie • A Toxic New Religion: Understanding the Postmodern, Neo-Marxist Faith that Seeks to Destroy the Judeo-Christian Culture of the West
In other words, in much popular modern Christian thought we have made a three-layered mistake. We have Platonized our eschatology (substituting “souls going to heaven” for the promised new creation) and have therefore moralized our anthropology (substituting a qualifying examination of moral performance for the biblical notion of the human vocation
... See moreN. T. Wright • The Day the Revolution Began
The fulfillment of Israel’s story in the story of the Messiah is the foundational charter of the church.
N. T. Wright • How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels
was at the Lord's Table but whether he was really present at the slave's cabin, whether slaves could expect Jesus to be with them as they tried to survive the cotton field, the whip, and the pistol.
James H. Cone • God of the Oppressed
If our theological vocation emerges out of the matrix of that vision, then we will not be limited to Euro-American definitions of theology. The ecstasy of the poet's vision