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Younger Theologians Claim their Ecumenical SpaceIn a consultation on interrogating and redefining power, younger theologians from the South claimed their ecumenical space, which they named AAPACALA, for Afro-Asia-Pacific-Caribbean-Latin America, where the 29 younger theologians came from. Locating themselves as younger theologians from the South, they defined their ecumenical space as more than the geographical connotations of South and North but more as being aligned with the Empire (North) or with the voices of resistance (South). Making critiques of the Bible and Christianity as having been made ideological tools of dominance, they called for relocating sites of power by making the central peripheral and putting the margin at the centre. They also portrayed Jesus as a Southerner, a symbol of resistance to oppressive power, subverter of situations and ways of seeing and living, and a symbol against misuse of the prosperity gospel. For more, see CCA News [March 2004] and the Faith, Mission and Unity section of the CCA website. posted by hope on Monday, May 03, 2004 |
