The Impossibility of Utopian Society, The Resurrection of Hope

Reflections on João Batista Libânio’s “Utopia, Hope, Resurrection”

This week on the Mad Liberation front, we discussed João Batista Libânio’s…

The Pushing and Shoving of Justice; Black Eschatology

“Ethics and eschatology are related in Black Theology. This is the basis of black hope. This is the…

Cone Heads: Black Eschatological Hope

This week our reading pod drew from two separate authors and articles by James Cone and Deotis Roberts. Both theologians passionately argue that an eschatological perspective must be grounded in the historical present, thereby “forcing the oppressed community to…

Black Church and Black Power

Written by Demetrius Cooper

Freedom Now

African American Liberation Theology, although it addresses eschatology, does not focus primarily on end times but rather seeks to view the end times as that which we must work towards in the present.

Both authors we read — J. Roberts and James Cone — start with the same premise…

The Last Enemy

Last week our group discussed Colin Gunton’s chapter on Eschatology: The Last Enemy. The chapter begins with an assumption that for…

right here in the belly of the beast

From Elyse:

Psalter- Dumpster Diver

“Come now and join the feast,
from the greatest to the very least,
come now and join the feast,
right here in the belly of the beast.