In Cambridge today using University Library. Reading about St Paul's sense of mission and vocation and his priorities in church planting and evangelism (William Bowers). Very usefully linking in to Newbigin and to Roland Allen. Spent some time revising Newbigin paper in light of reading and thinking.
On train home reading James Massey 'Downtrodden' re the "struggle of India's Dalits'. Massey was recommended during conversation at Tamilnadu Theological Seminary. Tamilnadu Theological Seminary has a strong emphasis on empowering the Dalit as part of the Gospel. Massey engages with Dalit Theology and also Liberation Theology. He has an emphasis on theology engaging with history not concepts (sounds very Hebrew). He notes that in 1997 the Indian church was 60 % Dalit.
No comments:
Post a Comment