Doing Theology with Cultural Studies: Rewriting History, Reimagining Salvation, Decolonizing Theology
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That temptation is to seek to cure the ills it has inflicted in the world in a way that assuages the aggressors’ conscience while not recognizing the permanent violence it has wrought upon the victims. Instead, Christian theologians, particularly those who are heirs of European hegemony, should pray to be “haunted” by figures of social memory of marginalized communities.
The result, Gruber maintained, will be a situation in which theologians stand between death and life, guilt and justice, suffering and redemption, and, most importantly, between a history of suffering and a future of hope. In that place, we enter into a “perpetual critical mourning” that results in salvation—a salvation born out of a recognition that God’s salutary presence is irretrievably entangled in the world. The speech was delivered on Friday, April 5, 2019.
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