Flourishing Theology
Theology thrives and best fulfills it purpose in wrestling with pronouns and prepositions more than with propositions. It can’t do its work without propositions but unless they are directed and seasoned by pronouns and prepositions their work will remain barren. -the guiding pronouns are we and ya’ll. Me is only truly found in We – not a faceless collective but a teeming throng of difference; no individualism where we find our identity and vocation by standing out from and over against the We, turning it into a They and Them (the third person is deathly to theology) but rather an individuality and vocation birthed in the womb of connected and relationality which calls forth who we are and what we are to do. Ya’ll is the truly genuine language of theology. Ya’ll is self-involving rather than selfish, relational rather than transactional, committed rather than instrumental. Ya’ll is constituted by communication, communion, and community. The singular has its place in...