Thursday, May 19, 2011

intersecting the -ologies

"We are indeed made in the image of some God. And perhaps we have no more important theological investigation than to discern in whose image we have been made. Our sociology is predictably derived from, legitimated by and reflective of our theology. And if we gather around a static god of order who only guards the interests of the "haves," oppression cannot be far behind. Conversely, if a God is disclosed who is free to come and go, free from and even against the regime, free to hear and even answer slave cries, free from all proper godness as defined by the empire, then it will bear decisively upon sociology because the freedom of God will surface in the brickyards and manifest itself as justice and compassion."

-pg 8, "The Prophetic Imagination" Walter Brueggemann

If our theology shapes our sociology, what does our current sociology say about the theology of our world today?

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