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Doing theology requires dissension and tenacity. Dissension is required when scriptural texts, and the colonial bodies and traditions (read: Babylon) that capitalize upon those, inhibit or prohibit "rising to life." With "nerves" to dissent, the attentions of the first cluster of essays extend to scriptures and theologies, to borders and native peoples. The title for the first cluster — "talking back with nerves, against Babylon" — appeals to the spirit of feminist (to talk back against patriarchy) and RastafarI (to chant down Babylon) critics. The essays in the second cluster — titled "persevering with tenacity, through shitstems" — testify that perseverance is possible, and it requires tenacity. Tenacity is required so that the oppressive systems of Babylon do not have the final word. These two clusters are framed by two chapters that set the tone and push back at the usual business of doing theology, inviting engagement with the wisdom and nerves of artists and poets, and two closing chapters that open up the conversation for further dissension and tenacity. Doing theology with dissension and tenacity is unending.
List of contents
1. "Take away the stone": Lazarus as (tombed) body (John 11:38-44)
Jione Havea
2. Call to Rise
Karen Georgia A. Thompson, Anna Jane Lagi, Aruna Gogulamanda, John Robert Lee, Chad Rimmer
talking back with nerves, against Babylon
3. "The Lord Needs Them" (Matthew 21:3): The Gospel's Beasts and Sovereign Christ
Tat-siong Benny Liew
4. Resisting the Economic Shitstem: A Postcolonial Filipinx-Korean Reading of Luke 16:1-13 with Mel Chen's Animacies Theory
Jeong, Dong Hyeon
5. Interrogating the Silence: Jesus' response to a Mother's cry, for a Daughter's disability (Matthew 15:21-28)
Wendy Elson
6. Translating Leviathan, Talking back to God, Doing public theology from below
Gerald O. West
7. Sitting and Weeping by the Rivers of Babylon
Miguel A. De La Torre
8. Lamentations as a Healing Response to Necropower at the Texas-Mexico Border
Gregory L. Cuéllar
9. Tuturu whiti whakamaua, Kia tina, tina! Haumi e, Hui e! Taiki e! Defiance, Determination and Decolonisation
Te Aroha Rountree
perseverin
About the author
Jione Havea is research fellow with Trinity Methodist Theological College (Aotearoa New Zealand) and with the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture (Charles Sturt University, Australia).Miguel A. De La Torre is professor of social ethics and Latino/a Studies at Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado.Jione Havea is research fellow with Trinity Methodist Theological College (Aotearoa New Zealand) and with the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture (Charles Sturt University, Australia).
