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Racism and God-talk a Latino/a perspective

The apostle Paul wrote that ""All of you are one in Christ Jesus."" Given Paul's vision of God's kingdom defined by the breakdown of all distinctions and relationships of domination-no longer Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female-how do we make sense of ethnic particularity within the church's theological formulations?. Racism and God-Talk explores the biblical and religious dimensions of North American racism while highlighting examples of resistance within the Christian religious tradition. Social historians have seldom analyzed the problematic of race from a primarily theological pers
eBook, English, c2008
New York University Press, New York, c2008
1 online resource (307 p.)
9780814776285, 9780814777367, 9788147762807, 0814776280, 0814777368, 8147762801
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The public relevance of theology
Guadalupe: Imago Dei reconsidered
The Mestizo Christ
The spirit of community
Conclusion: toward a Mestizo church
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