The Place of the Bible
As a human community we are living through a time of profound questioning as we reconnect ourselves to the sacred sources of life, placing us as a thread woven into the fabric of life in which it is essential that we see ourselves in all our diversity, so we can move away from the cultural and relig...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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SCM Press
[2019]
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| In: |
Concilium
Year: 2019, Issue: 4, Pages: 38-49 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Andes
/ Indians
/ Bible
/ Hermeneutics
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| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture HA Bible KBR Latin America VB Hermeneutics; Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Cultural Pluralism
B Religious Diversity B Bible B Life B Religious Aspects B Colonization |
| Summary: | As a human community we are living through a time of profound questioning as we reconnect ourselves to the sacred sources of life, placing us as a thread woven into the fabric of life in which it is essential that we see ourselves in all our diversity, so we can move away from the cultural and religious hegemony imposed throughout the history of the colonisation of Abya YalaJ It would, therefore, be both healthy and healing if we were not to consider the Bible as the one and only word of God, so that we may fully recognise in other texts, words, fabrics, songs, memories, tales and dances, the richness of the many languages of the Mystery of Life; variously experienced, embedded and named by the peoples linked to its ancient past and which have allowed them to continue being and existing. |
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| ISSN: | 0010-5236 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Concilium
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