Where might a person like myself fit, in a world of culturally and identity-bound theologies which debase the good news by not even considering what that good news consists of?
I claim to know what the good news is. To allay any curiosity I will say what it is. It is not what the church says it is. It is what Jesus says it is -- the nearness of Abba, the imperative to repentance, and the following of Abba's Way.
A simplicity so revolutionary that even to discuss it would shake the foundations of present day thinking about Christianity. And obviate the need for religion as we know it.
When I was at the World Council of Churches in Geneva in 1966 I put together a volume called The Development Apocalypse. There were examples of liberation theology from Latin America among the various pieces we published. Insofar as it was a focusing on this world and upon human issues of justice, well and good.
But let me suggest again, we have not even the basis in the past 40 years to begin discussing a theology that might be relevant to the coming millennium. And most certainly it does not help matters to have to defend weak theologies because they happen to being distorted, libeled and eviscerated by idiots, malcontents, fools and representatives of what I call the jaws of hell.
James Cone, you have placed me in a double bind. I do not choose to remain in it. So I must also criticize you. Being an Obama supporter, I am in good company.
I claim to know what the good news is. To allay any curiosity I will say what it is. It is not what the church says it is. It is what Jesus says it is -- the nearness of Abba, the imperative to repentance, and the following of Abba's Way.
A simplicity so revolutionary that even to discuss it would shake the foundations of present day thinking about Christianity. And obviate the need for religion as we know it.
When I was at the World Council of Churches in Geneva in 1966 I put together a volume called The Development Apocalypse. There were examples of liberation theology from Latin America among the various pieces we published. Insofar as it was a focusing on this world and upon human issues of justice, well and good.
James Cone, you have placed me in a double bind. I do not choose to remain in it. So I must also criticize you. Being an Obama supporter, I am in good company.
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