A Curious Display of Common Sense
Anubis has a comment on Hannah Giessler article about extremism and totalitarianism theories and the left in the jungle world typed.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
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Liberation Theologies, Postmodernity and the Americas
Edited by David Batstone , Eduardo Mendieta , Lois Lorentzen and Dwight N. Hopkins . New York 1997.
Quite a hybrid book, which reveals no common thread. Begins with a review of Franz Hinkelammert which outlines the socio-economic-politiko context of Latin American liberation theology and to forge in particular anti-liberation theologians like Michael Novak and Michel Camdessus . Rather an introduction so that on the actual, to prepare the book title assumed topic. But: None, because it is not clear what is supposed to be the focus of the book, which is scheduled to open debate.
It follows a study conducted by Elsa Tamez exegesis of the Book of Ecclesiastes. Interesting, but partly also a problem (on the far-fetched identification of Torah law). It could allow for this item yet to go through that he has something to do with postmodernism, this is by no later than the contribution of Maria Clara Bingemer . Unlike the title "A Post-Christian and Post Modern Christianisme" promises, these are namely a short presentation of the religious situation in Brazil. Sounds difficult then, as if just because an old article for the book was titled new.
Quite interesting - And closer to the subject of it - is an ultra short article but of Sharon Welch , "Dancing with Chaos". Similarly, the contribution of Dwight N. Hopkins, a representative of Black Theology, which is making a comparison between James Cone and Michel Foucault. Thus it is with the treatment of the theme "ThdB and postmodernism" but also already over.
Edmund Arens writing about critical theory and political theology. Very interesting, but a new barrel, it was followed by a translation of the speech, which Arends (seen by him not uncritical) Master Habermas for retirement of Johann Baptist Metz. Habermas tries to uncover the model repressive tolerance Metzen concept of the "anamnestic reason" installed in his discourse ethics. What is missing is a review of anamnestic reason of Metz itself Finally, a summary paper by Enrique Dussel is packed on it, which reflects in a nutshell Dussel ethics. It's worth but rather to equal access to a book, silly.
I have not mentioned all posts. There are several more, including from Gustavo Gutiérrez and Herausgeber_innen. Particularly in the latter occasionally comes a significant Central American Revolution frustration to the fore, which is both understandable, but on the other hand, not very weiterführend. Liberation theology is about actually already out, I would say. Conciliatory, however, the use of the Murals Last Supper of Chicano Heroes of José Antonio Burciaga true as cover art.
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