LET MY PEOPLE GO (16 OF 52)
Scripture: Exodus 5:1-21
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Let My People Go (16 of 52)
Series: Discipleship
Christopher B. Harbin
Exodus 5:1-21
Liberation theology, so called, has often gotten a bad rap. Some of that is deserved, but much has simply been a refusal to give it a hearing. Often this has been due to the church being loathe to critique a political establishment. At other times, it has come from a simple failure to understand the pressing needs of an oppressed population. In some cases, proponents have taken to rather obviously unChristian means of working out its application. Then again, it has also been because the church has often found itself protected by or in league with political forces such that it has had difficulty even assessing what the Bible might have to say on the issues of liberation theology.
Regardless, theology has most often been centered in the realm of academics, while liberation theology would address the concerns of an oppressed people. Often as not, the two have had little dialogue. When academics train pastors there has commonly been some neglect in regard to those concerns. Whether intentional, completely unintentional, or somewhere in between, liberation theology has remained mainly neglected.
As researchers, theologians deal first of all with the concerns of the people who take its study to heart. Theological systems developed in North America in the 20th Century will address different concerns, answer different questions, and find different connections between life and text than theologies developed in the same period in Latin America or Southeast Asia. It is not that God changes or the texts we study change. It is that our concerns and the direction of our questions lead us along different journeys.
When we look at the Biblical texts from the perspective of liberation theology, what we quickly find is that the Bible was written in large part from the perspective of people who were often oppressed by foreign, political, and or economic powers. Time and again, the me ...
Series: Discipleship
Christopher B. Harbin
Exodus 5:1-21
Liberation theology, so called, has often gotten a bad rap. Some of that is deserved, but much has simply been a refusal to give it a hearing. Often this has been due to the church being loathe to critique a political establishment. At other times, it has come from a simple failure to understand the pressing needs of an oppressed population. In some cases, proponents have taken to rather obviously unChristian means of working out its application. Then again, it has also been because the church has often found itself protected by or in league with political forces such that it has had difficulty even assessing what the Bible might have to say on the issues of liberation theology.
Regardless, theology has most often been centered in the realm of academics, while liberation theology would address the concerns of an oppressed people. Often as not, the two have had little dialogue. When academics train pastors there has commonly been some neglect in regard to those concerns. Whether intentional, completely unintentional, or somewhere in between, liberation theology has remained mainly neglected.
As researchers, theologians deal first of all with the concerns of the people who take its study to heart. Theological systems developed in North America in the 20th Century will address different concerns, answer different questions, and find different connections between life and text than theologies developed in the same period in Latin America or Southeast Asia. It is not that God changes or the texts we study change. It is that our concerns and the direction of our questions lead us along different journeys.
When we look at the Biblical texts from the perspective of liberation theology, what we quickly find is that the Bible was written in large part from the perspective of people who were often oppressed by foreign, political, and or economic powers. Time and again, the me ...
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