Sublime

Lewis war lange Jahre ein überzeugter und kämpferischer Atheist. Bis er sich entschied, sich ernsthaft mit den Argumenten des Glaubens an Gott auseinanderzusetzen.

Traditional Black churches mirror the failures of white churches when focusing on personal conversion frameworks and not addressing issues of injustice and oppression in their songs, prayers, sermons, and so on. In these Black churches, “Jesus is still white.” Instead, what is needed is a conversion to a faith of the God of Black liberation.

Black theology is a theology of black liberation. It seeks to plumb the black condition in the light of God’s revelation in Jesus Christ, so that the black community can see that the gospel is commensurate with the achievements of black humanity. Black theology is a theology of “blackness.” It is the affirmation of black humanity that emancipates

Dieses Prinzip fällt umso stärker ins Auge, wenn wir die Entwicklung in Europa mit Kulturen vergleichen, die die Bibel und das Bild eines treuen Gottes nicht kennen.

There are many ordinary blacks who point to Jesus’ suffering as a source of empowerment in their struggle to survive with dignity in a world they did not create.

It is this affirmation of transcendence that prevents Black Theology from being reduced merely to the cultural history of black people. For black people the transcendent reality is none other than Jesus Christ, of whom Scripture speaks.

Auschwitz God died, and we are alone in a pitiless universe.