Tag: Palestinian Theology
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Decolonizing Palestine: The Land, The People, The Bible
Mitri Raheb is one of my favorite theologians. I came across his work after reading a book by Philip Jenkins called The New Faces of Global Christianity that was basically racist. Written in the early 2000’s in the wake of 9/11 it argues, among other things, that Muslims are all fundamentalists. Eager to purify my
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Christ at the Checkpoint, Part 2
Part 2 of Christ at the Checkpoint (edited by Manfred W. Kohl and Munther Isaac) features a biblical response to Christian Zionism. Most notably, Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac writes about how Christian Zionism is an imperial theology based in supremacy. I think that this is important to remember, because a lot of people want to
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Christ at the Checkpoint, Part 1
Christ at the Checkpoint is an influential evangelical conference put on by Bethlehem Bible College. Its focus is on peacemaking in the Holy Land. I just started a book that was put out by the conference entitled Christ at the Checkpoint: Blessed are the Peacemakers. It is a good book, and I especially appreciate the
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Faith in the Face of Empire, Part 2
I think that the second part of this book by Mitri Raheb (2014) is most valuable for its explanation of what the Kairos Palestine document calls creative resistance. It is called creative resistance because calling something non-violent resistance in a Palestinian sense seems to imply that Palestinians are by default violent. This is a serious
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Faith in the Face of Empire, Part 1
I am reading Mitri Raheb’s Faith in the Face of Empire on Palestinian theology. The biggest thing I have gotten from it is the move to not have an exceptionalist interpretation of the Bible. As Raheb persuasively and yet also briefly argues, the entire Old Testament and especially the New Testament are designed to undermine
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