Identity
03/04/22 22:40
This photo gives a summary of the course I taught every Wednesday afternoon for the past three months. (The whole course in Spanish is at www.iglesiasecuador.com ) My focus was The People of God and the Kingdom of God with an emphasis on "Identity." The idea of identity seemed to "cilck" with the students. One of the conclusions of my Ph.D. dissertation was that the indigenous folk need a theology of identity rather than our theology of doctrine. I am still working with that conclusion. Yet at the end of the course, the students asked me, "Do you have the book about the history of how the gospel first came to the indigenous people in Ecuador?" (I did.) So I'm working with the question of "Who are we as the people of God?" rather than our usual emphasis of "What do we believe?"