CHAPTER 8 New Voices

• • James H. Cone Black Theology in American Religion

BY DANIEL JOSÉ CAMACHO JUNE 2, 2015 WHY JAMES H. CONE’S LIBERATION THEOLOGY MATTERS MORE THAN EVER: http://religiondispatches.org/why-james-h-cones-liberation-theology-matters-more-than-ever/

• • Gustavo Gutiérrez Liberation Praxis and Christian Faith

Gustavo Gutiérrez Merino, O.P. (born 8 June 1928 in Lima) is a Peruvian theologian and Dominican priest regarded as one of the principal founders of liberation theology in Latin America. He holds the John Cardinal O’Hara Professorship of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He has been professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and a visiting professor at many major universities in North America and Europe. He is a member of the Peruvian Academy of Language, and in 1993 he was awarded the Legion of Honor by the French government for his tireless work. He has also published in and been a member of the board of directors of the international journal, Concilium.

http://liberationtheology.org/people-organizations/gustavo-gutierrez/

excerpts: http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.yale.edu/divinity/fb/Day_37_Gutierrez_excerpts.pdf&sa=U&ved=0CDAQFjAGahUKEwj80fCi5ojHAhXHhQ0KHaNrCPU&usg=AFQjCNF5cqk04Ra4wreFLSsz5v606Hg8vw

quotes: http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/151379.Gustavo_Guti_rrez&sa=U&ved=0CDYQFjAHahUKEwj80fCi5ojHAhXHhQ0KHaNrCPU&usg=AFQjCNFWGAOVOJa11cM8CTXhN_b3fJoGDA

• • Evgeny Barabanov The Schism Between the Church and the World

… not only Solzhenitsyn but five other Russian authors have input to this work. it takes you from the tragedy that communism wrought to possible solutions to the trials they are now encountering.

excerpts: https://books.google.com/books?id=fOaXP-CjPOIC&pg=PA195&lpg=PA195&dq=-+Evgeny+Barabanov+The+Schism+Between+the+Church+and+the+World&source=bl&ots=R8HQm56vYf&sig=vvDwNOKZW4mDvccpM_qk-nSpHaA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCAQ6AEwAmoVChMIuc7L1eaIxwIVxf2ACh0lZAPb#v=onepage&q=-%20Evgeny%20Barabanov%20The%20Schism%20Between%20the%20Church%20and%20the%20World&f=false

• • John Mbiti. The Encounter of Christian Faith and African Religion

John Samuel Mbiti (born 30 November 1931) is a Kenyan-born Christian religious philosopher and writer. He is an ordained Anglican priest, and as of 2005 a canon.

http://www.google.com/url?q=http://academic.regis.edu/jbrumbau/readings/MBitiAfrica.pdf&sa=U&ved=0CBQQFjAAahUKEwjhp7m754jHAhXB1YAKHYKoDMo&usg=AFQjCNFjBPjw9uqUXaLWwOjOl5GOzrmVbg

• • C. S. Song The Cross and the Lotus

Choan-Seng Song (Chinese: 宋泉盛; pinyin: Sòng Quánshèng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Sòng Choân-sēng) (born 1929) is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Theology and Asian Cultures at the Pacific School of Religion and acting minister at the Formosan United Methodist Church in San Leandro, California. He studied at National Taiwan University (1950-1954), the University of Edinburgh (1955-1958) and Union Theological Seminary, where he received his PhD in 1965. Song was principal of Tainan Theological College (1965-70) and, later, president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (1977-2004).

He is perhaps the most widely published Asian theologian alive today, writing Christian theology steeped in Asian religious motifs.

• • Rosemary Radford Ruether Mother Earth and the Megamachine

Rosemary Radford Ruether (born November 2, 1936) is an American feminist scholar and Catholic theologian. Ruether is an advocate of women’s ordination, a movement among Catholic religious persons who affirm women’s capacity to serve as priests, despite official sanction. Since 1985 Ruether has served as a board member for the pro-choice group “Catholics for Choice” (CFC).

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