Crosscurrents in Majority World and Minority Theology

Crosscurrents in Majority World and Minority Theology 
3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
11/19/2022
Plaza Court 6 (Plaza Tower - Concourse Level) - Sheraton Downtown (SD)

This year’s session focuses on biblical and theological perspectives on identity. For more information, please contact K. K. Yeo ([email protected]) and Gene L. Green ([email protected]).

K. K. Yeo, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Introduction (5 min)

Funlola Olojede, University of Stellenbosch
“And Ye Shall Spoil the Egyptians”: Africa as Plunder, a Postcolonial Reading of Exod 3:21-22 (10 min)

Ruben L. F. Habito, Perkins School of Theology
“No Self” and “In Christ”—Buddhist Light on Christian Identity (10 min)

Robert Chao Romero, UCLA and Fuller Seminary
Galilee and the “Glory and Honor of the Nations”: A Survey and Constructive Proposal of Latina/o/x Theological Identities (10 min)

Raymond Aldred, Vancouver School of Theology
Indigenous Identities: Making Relatives (10 min)

Discussion (75 min)

Gene Green, Wheaton College and Graduate School, Presiding

Crosscurrents in Majority World and Minority Theology will not meet in 2021. Please check back in summer 2022 for the November 2022 program.

This year’s session will focus on biblical and theological perspectives on Land.

• K. K. Yeo, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Introduction (5 min)
• Mitri Raheb, Dar al-Kalima University
  The Bible and Land Colonization (10 min)
• Oscar García-Johnson, Fuller Seminary
  Faith Seeking for Land: A Latinx Decolonial Perspective (10 min)
• H. Daniel Zacharias, Acadia Divinity College
  The Land Takes Care of Us: Recovering Creator’s Relational Design (10 min)
• Hulisani Ramantswana, University of South Africa
• Negotiation and/or Conquest of the Land: Reading the Land of Promise Motif in the Hexateuch through Decolonial Lenses (10 min)
• Discussion (75 min)