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"Epistemological transformation does not mean one epistemology as a norm, but a pluriversal, trans-modern approach to faith and beliefs knowledge."

— Vuyani Vellem

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"Racism is a spirit that worships an idol—superiority—not the God of the oppressed."

Vuyani Shadrack Vellem discussing racism and liberation theology in Acta Theologica (2018)

"I am working on a project with the title When God is Evicted."

"I use indigenous concepts in almost all my writings."

"The embodiment of the Belhar Confession remains an ecclesiological challenge even today."

"The grammar, syntax and language of our approach in Black Theology of Liberation valorizes Black African experience, concepts or symbols of knowledge that have been excluded for decades."

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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