Church Matters: Retrieving the Great Tradition

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Chur ch Mat ter s : Ret r i ev i ng the Great Trad i t i on

b. Alienation between the workers, the powerful, and their livelihood

c. The opiate of religion and its deafening influence on justice and truth

d. The need for revolution to ensure lasting justice and peace (utopia)

4. Ongoing denominational upheaval and conflict: the commingling of culture, politics, power, and religion

B. The new emerging voices and perspectives of postmodernity: theologies of liberation: liberation theology is perhaps the most prolific theological movement in the 20th century : many varieties and overall endorsement of religious and spiritual pluralism

1. Black theologies (heir to the US civil rights movement, reaction to M. L. King, and Black nationalist thought: Cone, West, Hopkins, Roberts, Wilmore)

2. Feminist theologies (struggling with the issues of misogynism and oppression of women)

3. Latin theologies (Marxist-informed scholars and churchmen writing concerning the need for freedom of the oppressed)

4. Mestizo theologies, womanist theologies, etc.