Children of the Waters of Meribah: Black Liberation Theology, the Miriamic Tradition, and the Challenges of Twenty-First-Century Empire

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-195
Author(s):  
Anthony G. Reddie
Keyword(s):  
Liberation Theology ◽  
First Century ◽  
Black Liberation ◽  
Black Liberation Theology ◽  
Twenty First Century

An Ethic of Responsibility

2020 ◽  
pp. 113-142
Author(s):  
Kristopher Norris
Keyword(s):  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Original Sin ◽  
Wicked Problem ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Dietrich Bonhoeffer ◽  
Racial Reconciliation ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Black Liberation ◽  
Black Liberation Theology

This chapter begins the constructive turn in the book and outlines the contours and substance of an ethic of responsibility. The chapter begins by noting the impotence of efforts at “racial reconciliation” and offers the idea of “original sin” as a more accurate lens for addressing whiteness. The failure of white churches and theologians to reckon with the power of whiteness suggests the need for a new approach: an ethic of responsibility built upon the shared commitments of Cone and Hauerwas, and their mutual appeal to Dietrich Bonhoeffer, as well as the criticisms and corrections that black liberation theology directs at white theology. As a process of formation, an ethic of responsibility promotes radical, communal action to confront through material practices the wicked problem of whiteness, while also recognizing the lingering challenges of whiteness within a broken and wounded body of Christ.

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