Christina كريستينا (Taylor's Version)’s Reviews > Following Jesus in Invaded Space: Doing Theology on Aboriginal Land > Status Update
Christina كريستينا (Taylor's Version)
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"By the third century... the church argued that God... could not suffer... This move to emphasise God's omnipotence and omnipresence over against God's compassion, longsuffering, justness, mercy, & kindness had a political purpose. When the church began to enter the centre of power as partners with Constantine in the shaping of Roman power, there was no place for... a God that acted in solidarity with human beings."
— Jul 18, 2016 02:48PM
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Christina كريستينا (Taylor's Version)
is on page 150 of 190
"The word is not rightly proclaimed and heard just because it appears to accord to the biblical text or gets a verbal amen from the people, but because it expresses God's vision for equality and justice and locates God's people along with those on the margins."
— Aug 16, 2016 03:16PM
Christina كريستينا (Taylor's Version)
is on page 126 of 190
"Redistributive justice must involve, for the rich, the act of repentance. And there can be no repentance unless there is reparation to the poor."
— Aug 12, 2016 11:32PM
Christina كريستينا (Taylor's Version)
is on page 125 of 190
"Yet the reality is that justice for the marginalised will always endanger the social order imposed by those who benefit from the impoverishment of members of the community. The whole point of such protest is to upset the order that oppresses it. The constant question for the church is where it sits in this debate as followers of the Christ who said we would find him among the imprisoned and the marginalised."
— Aug 12, 2016 10:28PM
Christina كريستينا (Taylor's Version)
is on page 106 of 190
"God sits with people to offer them not simply comfort in the midst of suffering, although this may be the case, but the courage to struggle against ongoing oppression. ... The challenge to those who do theology is that they speak not from a distance into the life of suffering, but out of a sharing with people and God."
— Jul 22, 2016 05:02PM
Christina كريستينا (Taylor's Version)
is on page 98 of 190
"We are not seeking intellectual understanding. There is no hope of all we gain is new information and learning. Rather, as Hauerwas says, the only hope we will have is if we can place alongside our stories of pointless suffering a story of suffering that shows we have not been abandoned."
— Jul 22, 2016 04:08PM
Christina كريستينا (Taylor's Version)
is on page 98 of 190
"God's power is not power that interrupts life occasionally, but is continuous and sustaining power through which all life is made possible. It is the enabling power that cooperated with life, and makes freedom possible." (Paraphrasing Andrew Dutney.)
— Jul 22, 2016 05:34AM
Christina كريستينا (Taylor's Version)
is on page 93 of 190
"Indigenous Christians believe that God placed them here, and have them this land. God was already present in this place and did not need to be brought by the invaders."
— Jul 18, 2016 02:42PM
Christina كريستينا (Taylor's Version)
is on page 90 of 190
"... the danger here is that the church will not be able to let go of its belief that the church, as it is, is 'normal'. They way to weave people into the story, but do not want them to have any influence in the story, or for the story to change."
— Jul 17, 2016 01:47PM
Christina كريستينا (Taylor's Version)
is on page 89 of 190
"Faith is not simply about intellectual assent but is a way of life."
— Jul 17, 2016 01:45PM
Christina كريستينا (Taylor's Version)
is on page 85 of 190
"Theology is a form of social action and a way of living. It seeks to offer people wisdom about the way they encounter God. ... We need to let go of the assumption that God can be encountered completely in our places, and to be open to new ways of hearing and new ways of understanding where God is."
— Jul 17, 2016 01:41PM
