Liberating the Future
God, Mammon, and Theology
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Liberating the Future: God, Mammon, and Theology
What are the prospects for liberation theology and the social change it espouses? What can liberation theologies learn from each other?
Writing from a variety of social locations—the African American community, the feminist struggle, and tensions within Europe, North America, and Latin America—these exciting and enlightening thinkers reflect on the vastly changed context of and challenges to liberation. Yet they find common concerns and cause. They espouse religious reflection that attends closely to those pushed to the margins (even though on the surface things seem to be improving), to shifting structures of oppression, and especially to global economic structures as they affect specific locales.
For all those interested in the survival and growth of justice-oriented religious commitment, this volume signals concrete and exciting new directions for thought and action.
Participants include:
John B. Cobb, Jr., Claremont School of Theology
Gustavo Gutierrez, Instituto Bartalome de Las Casas, Rimac, Peru
M. Douglas Meeks, Wesley Theological Seminary
Jurgen Moltmann, University of Tubingen
Joerg M. Rieger, Perkins School of Theology
Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, Chicago Theological Seminary
Gayraud S. Wilmore, Interdenominational Theological Center, Atlanta
- Publisher Fortress Press
- Format Paperback
- ISBN 9780800631437
- Dimensions 5.5 x 8.5
- Pages 176
- Publication Date November 4, 1998
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Contributors
- Introduction: Watch the Money
Joerg Rieger
- God and Mannon
- The Signs of the Times
- Where We Are
- Entering a New Era?
- A Global Effort
- On Becoming a Traitor: The Academic Liberation Theologian and the Future
Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite
- Liberation Theology and the Future
- Defend Us from Our Friends and Not Just Our Enemies
- Economic Analysis
- Postmodernism
- Liberation Theology and the Global Economy
John B. Cobb Jr.
- The Primacy of Theology over Virtue
- Serving God and Mammon
- Economism
- Economism and Liberation Theology
- The Global Capitalist Market
- Economism and Poverty
- Refuting Other Economistic Claims
- Economy and the Future of Liberation Theology in North America
M. Douglas Meeks
- Church and Economy
- The Landscape of Liberation in North America
- Church as Alternative Economy
- Political Theology and Theology of Liberation
- Jürgen Moltmann
- Origins and Beginnings
- Developments in European Political Theology
- Where Do We Stand?
- The Future of Liberation Theology
- The Theology of Our Liberation
- Black Consciousness: Stumbling Block or battering Ram?
Gayraud S. Wilmore
- Black and White Theology
- The Meaning of Blackness
- Religion and Color Symbolism
- Where We Are Now
- Reconciliation Prematurely?
- Liberation Theology and the Future of the Poor
Gustavo Gutiérrez
- Theological Reflection
- The Poor and the Future
- Liberated to Be Free
- Between Mysticism and Solidarity
- Developing a Common Interest Theology from the Underside
Joerg Rieger
- Contextual Theology and Special Interest Theology
- Which Context?
- Where Is God?
- A Look Ahead
- New Birth of Conscience
Frederick Herzog
- Notes
- Index