Racism and God-Talk : A Latino/a Perspective

by Rodriguez, Ruben Rosario

• ISBN13: 9780814776117
• ISBN10: 0814776116
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-07-19
• Publisher: New York Univ Pr

Summary

The apostle Paul wrote that All of you are one in Christ Jesus.” Given Paul’s vision of God’s kingdom defined by the breakdown of all distinctions and relationships of domination--no longer Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female--how do we make sense of ethnic particularity within the church’s theological formulations?Racism and God-Talk explores the biblical and religious dimensions of North American racism while highlighting examples of resistance within the Christian religious tradition. Social historians have seldom analyzed the problematic of race from a primarily theological perspective. This volume undertakes a critical examination of explicitly theological and confessional perspectives for understanding and transforming North American racism.Rososario Rodríguez offers insights from Latino/a theology for broader scholarly and social discussions concerning racism, borders, and immigration. The first to analyze race and racism from a Latino/a theological perspective, the volume makes use of a broadened conceptualization of mestizaje,” or mutual cultural exchange, to challenge the church to recognize the effects of racial and ethnic particularity in all theological construction.

Author Biography

Ruben Rosario Rodriguez is Assistant Professor of Theological Studies at Saint Louis University

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The Fundamental Contradiction
Beyond Black and White: Understanding Race in North America	p. 25
Exploring Mestizaje as Theological Metaphor	p. 69
The Public Relevance of Theology	p. 111
The Theological Response
Guadalupe: Imago Dei Reconsidered	p. 153
The Mestizo Christ	p. 176
The Spirit of Community	p. 212
Conclusion: Toward a Mestizo Church	p. 236
Notes	p. 251
Index	p. 291
About the Author	p. 297
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