Liberating Discernment

Language, Concreteness, and Naming Divine Activity in History

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3335484
AutoresTyler Blake Davis (Baylor University, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Volume10
Fascículo10
Páginas562
Data de publicação2019-09-30
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoReligions (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
EditoraMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel10100562
OpenAlexW2975003512
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas14

One of the revolutionary insights of early liberation theology was that theological discernment is, above all, a concrete undertaking. Yet this insight is accompanied by a persistent conundrum that arises from the way in which naming God's activity in history is perceived as collapsing God's objective distance into contingent affairs. This paper contends that this conundrum results from a constricting account of theological objectivity which is problematically conceived in opposition to concretization and so obstructs an account of liberating discernment. Locating this concern within the (de)colonial history of competing theological readings of the weather, and, in addition, prompted by Alice Crary's expansion of objectivity in ethical theory, I argue that theological objectivity must not only include but begin with theological languages of the oppressed as its essential point of departure. Recovering the insight of early liberation theologians, this paper contends that theology may speak of God objectively only as it concretely shares in the liberating life and words of the crucified peoples of history. The purpose of this argument is then to envision Christian ethics as language accountable to the apocalyptic activity of the God of the oppressed

Concreteness · Discernment · Epistemology · Sociology · Theology · Anthropology · Christian Theology and Mission · Law · Philosophy · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics · Theological Perspectives and Practices