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Pamphletarian Theology with Cláudio Carvalhaes | Interview with Justo L. Gonzalez

August 25th, 2014|

Watch these exciting clips from Cláudio Carvalhaes' interview with Justo L. Gonzalez, a preeminent Latin@ theologian…

Fourth Monday: Pamphletarian Theology with Cláudio Carvalhaes

December 8th, 2013|

"Like Prophet Gentileza, as a Christian social-eeconomic-cultural-religious actor, I have responsibilities with our ways of living. So my eye, ear, mouth, hands and body will try to be with, or near to the poor."

The Colonized Mind in Isolation Diminishes the Non-Violent Life of the Heart

July 30th, 2013|

"It is easy to write about postcolonial ideas, but far more challenging to engage differences that thrust us out of our comfortable privileges in the academy and/or church."

Book Release: A Postcolonial African American Re-reading of Colossians

June 20th, 2013|

Below is the second text–and the first single-authored one–to be published in the Postcolonialism and Religions series, edited by Joseph Duggan, founder of Postcolonial Networks, and J. Jayakiran Sebastian, Dean of Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia.
Annie Tinsley, A Postcolonial African American Re-reading of Colossians: Identity, Reception, and Interpretation under the Gaze of Empire, Postcolonialism and […]

Evangelical Postcolonial Conversations Roundtable

June 18th, 2013|

"The volume begins by locating the ensuing chapters within the narrative of the Postcolonial Roundtable, underscoring the imperative of identifying narrative, location, and convictions."

A Christian Reflection on Postcolonial Theology for the Postmodern World

May 26th, 2013|

"Sociologically speaking, 'reality' is developed by the dominant culture. However, deconstruction and reconstruction are helpful notions. When 'reality' is deemed unfair, unjust, and oppressive, we can recreate and restructure it."

A Graduate Student’s Top Five Picks: Joseph N. Goh

December 9th, 2012|

"Postcolonial critiques and recastings of theological themes are not theologoumenonic fads, but critiques and transformations of colonising methodologies and epistemologies in theology . . ."