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Interlocution and black theology of liberation in the 21st century : a reflection [PDF]

, 2012
Before the dawn of democracy in South Africa, in the methodological debates that were associated with who the interlocutor of Black Theology of liberation was, there was a tacit understanding that not everyone who is black is necessarily an ...
Vellem, Vuyani Shadrack
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Umfazi akangeni ebuhlanti emzini … A womanist dialogue with Black Theology of Liberation in the 21st century

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2016
As reflected in the title, this article is premised by pervasive attitudes arising from a complex interplay of cultural practices, which have succeeded in dislocating black women from what is perceived to be black men’s sites, ebuhlanti (kraal ...
Fundiswa Kobo
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Doing Justice to Life in All Its Dimensions: Nurturing Humanism as Aesthetic Existence in the Church as a Sphere of Freedom

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract In this essay the author examines what Dietrich Bonhoeffer meant when he wrote from prison to his friend Eberhard Bethge and said that he wanted to retrieve “aesthetic existence” in the life of the church as a sphere of freedom. This is related to what he also told Bethge, namely, that it is “only as we hold fast to Christ as cantus firmus ...
John W. de Gruchy
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Reconsidering the Freedom Charter, the black theology of liberation and the African proverb about the locust’s head in the context of poverty in South Africa

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2016
While South Africa attained liberation from the apartheid rule in 1994, the legacy of colonialism and apartheid – in the form of poverty and economic inequality – continues to haunt black South Africans.
Ndikho Mtshiselwa
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Black Humanism: Sameness and Difference in Being Human and Being Black in the United Kingdom

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay outlines a variety of responses to a central question pertaining to Black humanism: namely, what does it mean to be a Black human, given the existence of systemic racism within the Body of Christ and in many White majority societies in the African Diaspora, in this case, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain?
Anthony G. Reddie
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Language, Otherness, and the Art of Struggle: A Dialogical Reading of the People of Babel

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Many have valued the story of Babel for its anthropological insights. However, what these might be has remained contentious. One of the most recent debates has concerned the nature of the people's sin. Where more traditional accounts have accentuated the severity of their actions and the finality of God's retributive response, other ...
Matthew D. Kirkpatrick
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Black Theology relevance post-1994: Examining themes of debate during the Vellem era, 2010–2019

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
In South Africa, debates on Black Theology of Liberation took various shapes over the years. The debates were impacted by different political contexts since the inception of this theology in this country, dating to the early 1970s.
Mnyalaza T. Masuku
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The Judeo‐Islamic God

The Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract This article discusses the concept of the Judeo‐Islamic God as a substantive and defensible alternative to the problematic concept of the “Judeo‐Christian God” in popular, political, and academic Western discourses. It argues that the transcendent monotheistic deity of Islam, Allāh, is a direct continuation of the composite deity of Rabbinic ...
Jeffry R. Halverson
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Evidentiary Interpretation, Discursive Injustice, and Rap on Trial

Philosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The submission of rap lyrics as inculpatory evidence (Rap on Trial) is an active prosecution tactic deployed in United States criminal trials. In this paper, I argue that interpretive ambiguity in rap lyrics is exploited in Rap on Trial cases, constituting a novel form of discursive injustice: extractive discursive injustice.
K. M. Crandall
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Noah's Raven, Noah's Son: The Metamorphoses of Blackness in Early Modern Readings of Genesis 8‐9

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the past half‐century, scholars have offered various theories to explain when and how an aetiology for black skin became part of the reception history of the so‐called Curse of Ham in Genesis 9—a text that does not include any reference to skin colour.
Ashleigh Elser
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