Ethiopia

Ethiopia

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

How do we do theology?

A book published 1974 by JMB was published in the USA as Doing Theology in a Revolutionary Situation and in the UK with the rather patronising title, Revolutionary Theology Comes of Age. Míguez dislike both of these titles so when he translated in back into Spanish, he called is Fe en Busca de Eficacia; Faith Seeking Effectiveness. This is, of course, a play on Anselm of Canterbury's famous axiom fides quaerens intellectum; faith seeking understanding. Míguez' definition is mediated by Marx when he stated in, The Holy Family, that "Philosophers have only tried to interpret the world, in various ways; the point is to change it". It maybe controversial to say this, but, as Evangelicals, we can learn from this. Theology we do at allnations our theology in unashamedly pragmatic. We do theology to better carry out our mission in the world. Others' thoughts on this are welcome.

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