The Empathy List #99: the Other Theologians
The Dead White Guys don't have exclusive access to God
Hello friends, Liz here.
I’m churning out the draft of my book with a deadline looming, so my brain is too full to bring you much besides of list of what I’m reading… which is a whole bunch of minority writers who are much smarter than I am.
Theological eduation at most well-known US seminaries is known to be a place you go to read dead white guys. ;-)
These dead white guys do have meaningful, thoughtful and true things to say about God.
But dead white guys don’t have exclusive access to God and sometimes they swing wildly and miss… and their misses hurt more because they have had an unequal amount of power in Christian spaces since the time of Jesus.
So as I’ve been writing my own strange theological book, I’ve been supplementing my bible education at the Big Important Evangelical College in the midwest (*eye roll*) by following the trails of footnotes and recommendations in the work of theologians I respect in order to track down the work of the other theologians.
That is, I’m looking…
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