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Symbolic Theology and Resistance in the Theology of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Paul Tillich
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Abstract
In this article, I study how symbolic theology can be advantageously utilized in the resistance against oppressing structures and ideologies. Studying two sermons of Paul Tillich and two speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the symbols used herein as a call to resistance against injustice, I wish to show how theologically grounded symbols have been used to resist injustice and in the call for justice. Furthermore, I study how the symbols used by Tillich and King can be utilized and reinterpreted in the various struggles taking place today against old and new oppressing structures and ideologies. The resistance against injustice must, however, also be undertaken intersectionally. And finally, I propose to bring the understanding of theology as symbolic engagement from Robert C. Neville into conversation with intersectional symbolic theology. I believe an intersectional symbolic theology can be successfully applied to feminist theology, queer theology, and other liberative theologies today.
Title: Symbolic Theology and Resistance in the Theology of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Paul Tillich
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Abstract
In this article, I study how symbolic theology can be advantageously utilized in the resistance against oppressing structures and ideologies.
Studying two sermons of Paul Tillich and two speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.
and the symbols used herein as a call to resistance against injustice, I wish to show how theologically grounded symbols have been used to resist injustice and in the call for justice.
Furthermore, I study how the symbols used by Tillich and King can be utilized and reinterpreted in the various struggles taking place today against old and new oppressing structures and ideologies.
The resistance against injustice must, however, also be undertaken intersectionally.
And finally, I propose to bring the understanding of theology as symbolic engagement from Robert C.
Neville into conversation with intersectional symbolic theology.
I believe an intersectional symbolic theology can be successfully applied to feminist theology, queer theology, and other liberative theologies today.
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