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Re-membering the Reign of God - Elizabeth O'Donnell Gandolfo, Laurel Marshall Potter

Re-membering the Reign of God

The Decolonial Witness of El Salvador's Church of the Poor
Buch | Hardcover
394 Seiten
2022
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-1895-5 (ISBN)
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Reflecting theologically on the 50-year history of ecclesial base communities in El Salvador, this book argues that the church of the poor is a decolonial sacrament of the reign of God. The authors challenge Christians to unlearn colonial expressions of faith, concluding with a retrieval of solidarity in the Catholic social tradition.
What does it mean for an historically colonial church to become the "church of the poor" in a world marked by pervasive and persistent coloniality? Re-membering the Reign of God addresses this question through historical and theological reflection on the evolution of El Salvador's ecclesial base communities as decolonial protagonists of the church of the poor in their own particular context of coloniality and prophetic hope. In the first part of the book, the authors present sacred narratives of 'Salvadoran Salvation History,' including histories, songs, and testimonies of ecclesial base communities themselves. In the second part of the book, the authors reflect theologically on these narratives, arguing that these communities embody a decolonial sacrament of the reign of God in and through their ecclesial, social, and cultural reclamation of knowledge, being, and power in the church and the world. These communities therefore represent a particularly rich locus for decolonizing theology and challenging the church in the Global North to join the church of the poor in its prophetic praxis of decolonial solidarity.

Elizabeth O'Donnell Gandolfo is associate professor at Wake Forest School of Divinity. Laurel Marshall Potter is a doctoral candidate at Boston College.

Introduction: Otro mundo es posible: Is An-Other Church Possible?

Part I: Un largo caminar: Salvadoran Salvation History

Part II: El reino de Dios es de lxs pobres: Decolonial Theological Reflection in/on the Ecclesial Base Communities of El Salvador

Chapter One: Sacramento histórico del reino de Dios: Decoloniality and the Eschatological Horizons of El Salvador's Church of lxs Pobres

Chapter Two: Tomamos la palabra: Decolonial Knowledge in the Salvadoran Church of lxs Pobres

Chapter Three: Celebramos la vida: Decolonial Being in the Salvadoran Church of lxs Pobres

Chapter Four: Luchamos por la justicia: Decolonial Power in the Salvadoran Church of lxs Pobres

Chapter Five: Si el grano de trigo no muere: The Challenge of Decolonial Solidarity

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in Religion and Theology
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 160 x 228 mm
Gewicht 767 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Religionsgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Christentum
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-7936-1895-X / 179361895X
ISBN-13 978-1-7936-1895-5 / 9781793618955
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