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By becoming poor and entrusting divine revelation to a carpenter from Nazareth, God makes clear where one has to be in order to hear the divine word and experience divine presence.
Speaking the Truth: Ecumenism, Liberation, and Black Theology (1986)
If the church ... does not make God's liberation of the oppressed central in its mission and proclamation, how can it rest easy with a condemned criminal as the dominant symbol of its message?
Speaking the Truth: Ecumenism, Liberation, and Black Theology (1986)
Any talk about God that fails to make God's liberation of the oppressed its starting point is not Christian.
Speaking the Truth: Ecumenism, Liberation, and Black Theology (1986)
As ambassadors of Jesus Christ, Christians have no choice but to join the movement of liberation on the side of the poor, fighting against the structures of injustice. Faith in Jesus Christ, therefore, is not only an affirmation that we utter in Sunday worship and at other church gatherings. Faith is a commitment, a deeply felt experience of being called by the Spirit of Christ to bear witness to God's coming liberation by fighting for the freedom of the poor now.
Speaking the Truth: Ecumenism, Liberation, and Black Theology (1986)