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All theology is political.
Saying that we are all interconnected is political.
Saying we have an obligation to care for and enfranchise the marginalized is political.
Making claims about who holds what authority is political.
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Saying that we are all interconnected is political.
Saying we have an obligation to care for and enfranchise the marginalized is political.
Making claims about who holds what authority is political.
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Making claims about the origin and nature of evil is political.
Making claims about the origin and nature of suffering is political.
Making claims about what texts can be interpreted and what the boundaries of those interpretations are is political.
Making claims about the origin and nature of suffering is political.
Making claims about what texts can be interpreted and what the boundaries of those interpretations are is political.
Describing the relationship between God and community is political.
Describing who is within the bounds of that community is political.
Deciding what worship is and what its limits are is political.
Describing who is within the bounds of that community is political.
Deciding what worship is and what its limits are is political.
Deciding who can assert what or who God is, and is not, is political.
Discerning what God might ask of us is political.
Deciding how we live that out in the world is political.
Discerning what God might ask of us is political.
Deciding how we live that out in the world is political.
Theology is the attempt by human beings to capture our understandings and questions about the divine in words that we can understand.
It is human-created, and it has implications for human beings.
Of course it is political.
It is human-created, and it has implications for human beings.
Of course it is political.
Theology necessarily reflects our understandings of power and powerlessness, agency and responsibility, relationship to the self and the collective.
Theology can be a thing that heals or corrodes.
Theology can be a thing that heals or corrodes.
Theology necessarily has implications for the world in which we live, other people, our choices individually and collectively.
It can, and not infrequently does, also have concrete implications in terms of how policy is shaped and passed.
Even in places where it's not as obvious, questions about worthiness and obligation, responsibility, suffering, evil and community reverberate.
Even in places where it's not as obvious, questions about worthiness and obligation, responsibility, suffering, evil and community reverberate.
Let us be honest about this.
Let us remember that no theology lives in a vacuum.
There is no human space devoid of context, abstract, pure.
This is a good thing, or at least a good opportunity.
Let us remember that no theology lives in a vacuum.
There is no human space devoid of context, abstract, pure.
This is a good thing, or at least a good opportunity.
Abstract doesn't help people, which I believe with every fiber of my being is what theology must do.
If your theology doesn't care about people, what are you doing? Who do you serve? For whom are you responsible?
But again, these are political questions.
That's OK.
If your theology doesn't care about people, what are you doing? Who do you serve? For whom are you responsible?
But again, these are political questions.
That's OK.
