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1: Middle Eastern Christianity Unit |
A growing number of Christian theologians in the Middle East have deployed liberation theology, contextual theology, and other theologies of liberation as a means of understanding their fraught political, social, and economic contexts across the region. In this panel theologians, including those based in the Middle East, will share their engagements with theology to challenge and reconsider current conditions of oppression and injustice. Panelists will address the strengths and difficulties in such theological engagement and consider the historical development of liberation theologies in the region and contemporary questions, like the possibility of Arab Christian women's ordination.
Abstract for Online Program Book (maximum 150 words)
A growing number of Christian theologians in the Middle East have deployed liberation theology, contextual theology, and other theologies of liberation as a means of understanding their fraught political, social, and economic contexts across the region. In this panel theologians, including those based in the Middle East, will share their engagements with theology to challenge and reconsider current conditions of oppression and injustice. Panelists will address the strengths and difficulties in such theological engagement and consider the historical development of liberation theologies in the region and contemporary questions, like the possibility of Arab Christian women's ordination.