Johnny Ramirez-Johnson

Evangelical Theologies of Liberation and Justice

Theology

“Evangelical Theologies of Liberation and Justice provides one more needed bridge between the epistemically dualist mindset of most liberation theologians of the previous centuries and today's analysis of colonialism and the postcolonial movement. This book walks toward the development of what Robert Chao Romero calls 'the daily rhythm and grind of lo cotidiano from which unique theological and epistemological understandings flow.' Terry LeBlanc and Jeanine LeBlanc also usethe critical analysis needed for outlining such epistemic changes that embrace abandonment of dualist and positivist enlightenment ideology that served as fertile roots for colonization: instead of 'I think, therefore I am,' Indigenous people might understand being as 'We are, therefore I am.' Andrea Smith's words are the best representation of the needed contribution of this book in building a bridge between evangelical traditional epistemic truth-seeking and the need for embracing 'a fuller exploration of what it means to be born again that might lead us to an approach that would synergize an ideological/epistemological approach with a structural analysis.' I am very confident that all the contributors' considerations presented in Evangelical Theologies of Liberation and Justice will serve us well among evangelical scholars. It is time to embrace the need for a new epistemology. I will be paying attention to what Mae Elise Cannon and Andrea Smith continue to contribute.”