Marginal Christianity

From Karl Barth we need to learn anew that it is God speaking to us in Holy Scripture’s witness to Jesus Christ in the power of the Spirit. From Dietrich Bonhoeffer we must learn that Christendom is over, to perpetuate it is folly, that is, unfaithfulness based on fear and lack of discernment), church must be rediscovered in the local, in the last and the least, and in the double immersion in the daily life of the world and the   life of Jesus to discern the will and way of God among us re recommends in his Letters and Papers from Prison. From Michel de Certeau that the task of the church is to establish boundaries and create a space, a home for its members and at the same time transgress those boundaries in openness and welcome to those outside. From Rene Girard that desire, disorded desire, mimicking what God and others do, have, and are generate the violence that corrodes and degrades all of us and our world. From the Liberation theologians that God exercises ...

http://danielleshroyer.com/2014/04/07/moltmann-2-sides-oppression/   by danielle on April 7, 2014 Happy Moltmann Monday, all. Today’s selection is from  Experiences in Theology  where Moltmann will engage mirror images of liberation theology (p.183). Before he does that, though, he reminds us of a basic precept that must undergird all our talks about ethics and justice if it is to be properly Christian (bold words mine): The oppression of human beings by other human beings has many different faces. It can take the form of political oppression, economic exploitation, social exclusion , cultural estrangement and sexist humiliation. It takes other forms too. But it is always a crime against life. For human life is life in community and communication. Life means ‘loving your neighbor as yourself’, not ‘subdue him and make him submissive.’ To oppress other people means to cut oneself off from God too, ‘for if a man does not love his brother whom he has seen, how c...