I just recently came back to this piece to re-read it, and I have to ask: Have you found any published (formally or self-published) theologians or religious thinkers you would recommend?
(Because of my educational plans for the next year, my ability to do this kind of communal theology is very limited. Even if I find myself crossing gender, racial, ethnic, national bounds, I find myself still reading theologians who are generally of the same educational level—and honestly, I’d assume most of them are in the same socioeconomic bounds, too. I’d love to be able to learn theology from people who have learned their theology by practice and combining it with their realities—not just studying it in seminary, as much as I think that has it’s place for being useful and spiritually formative.)
This is a great question. I have found myself gravitating toward the theology of struggle from the Philippines, Eleazar Fernandez and Ben Beltran. Also, from south Africa, Gerald O. West, Stephan De Beer. From LatAm, Elsa Tamez, Nancy Bedford, Ivonne Gebara. I also think that if you can get your hands on any type of contextual bible study guides and practice it, you can experience it first hand. Also, my book, A Human Catechism addresses some of that 😉 😉. I hope this is helpful.
I just recently came back to this piece to re-read it, and I have to ask: Have you found any published (formally or self-published) theologians or religious thinkers you would recommend?
(Because of my educational plans for the next year, my ability to do this kind of communal theology is very limited. Even if I find myself crossing gender, racial, ethnic, national bounds, I find myself still reading theologians who are generally of the same educational level—and honestly, I’d assume most of them are in the same socioeconomic bounds, too. I’d love to be able to learn theology from people who have learned their theology by practice and combining it with their realities—not just studying it in seminary, as much as I think that has it’s place for being useful and spiritually formative.)
This is a great question. I have found myself gravitating toward the theology of struggle from the Philippines, Eleazar Fernandez and Ben Beltran. Also, from south Africa, Gerald O. West, Stephan De Beer. From LatAm, Elsa Tamez, Nancy Bedford, Ivonne Gebara. I also think that if you can get your hands on any type of contextual bible study guides and practice it, you can experience it first hand. Also, my book, A Human Catechism addresses some of that 😉 😉. I hope this is helpful.
This is great, thank you!