Descolonizando la educación teológica latinoamericana
Stephen DiTrolio Coakley habla con el Dr. Nicolás Panotto acerca de su próximo libro sobre ‘religión, educación y teología con acento poscolonial’
Stephen DiTrolio Coakley habla con el Dr. Nicolás Panotto acerca de su próximo libro sobre ‘religión, educación y teología con acento poscolonial’
En este episodio de OP Talks, Stephen DiTrolio Coakley habla con el teólogo y profesor Dr. Nicolás Panotto sobre su próximo libro Decolonizing Theological Knowledge in Latin America: Religion, Education and Theology with a Postcolonial Accent [Descolonizando el conocimiento teológico en América Latina: religión, educación y teología con acento poscolonial](Editorial JuanUno1, 2021). El Dr. Panotto se desempeña como director de Otros Cruces, una organización dedicada a inspirar el diálogo, la democracia y los derechos humanos a través del intercambio de conocimientos entre la fe y la realidad, las comunidades religiosas y las organizaciones de la sociedad civil, y entre los caminos espirituales y los actores políticos.
LEA MÁS
Panotto, Nicolás. “De otros saberes y conocimientos-otros. Una revisión (crítica) de la descolonización epistémica en los saberes/sabidurías teológicos.” Teología Práctica Latinoamericana, Vol. 1, No. 2, julio/diciembre 2021.
Decolonizing Latin American Theological Education
Stephen DiTrolio Coakley talks to Dr. Nicolás Panotto about his forthcoming book on ‘religion, education, and theology with a postcolonial accent’
Stephen DiTrolio Coakley talks to Dr. Nicolás Panotto about his forthcoming book on ‘religion, education, and theology with a postcolonial accent’
In this episode of OP Talks, Stephen DiTrolio Coakley talks to theologian and professor Dr. Nicolás Panotto about his forthcoming book Decolonizing Theological Knowledge in Latin America: Religion, Education and Theology with a Postcolonial Accent (Editorial JuanUno1, 2021). Dr. Panotto serves as director of Otros Cruces, an organization dedicated to inspiring dialogue, democracy and human rights through knowledge exchanges between faith and reality, religious communities and civil-society organizations, and between spiritual paths and political actors.
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Panotto, Nicolás. “De-colonizing theological education: towards an ecology of theological knowledges in Latin America.” Presentated at the Reformation-Education-Transformation Twin International Consultation, Halle, Germany, 13 May 2016.
After Whiteness
Dr. Teresa Delgado talks to Dr. Willie James Jennings about education in belonging and forming people who form communion
Dr. Teresa Delgado talks to Dr. Willie James Jennings about education in belonging and forming people who form communion
Dr. Teresa Delgado and Rev. Dr. Willie James Jennings discuss his most recent book, After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging (Eerdmans, 2020), the inaugural volume of the groundbreaking Theological Education between the Times book series. As the publisher notes, Rev. Dr. Jennings draws on "the insights gained from his extensive experience in theological education, most notably as the dean of a major university's divinity school—where he remains the only African American to have ever served in that role." In order to “tell the truth from deep down inside of it,” says Rev. Dr. Jennings, “I couldn't get to it just by standard academic writing. I can only get to it by drawing on all the sides of what it means to talk and write about life, but also all the sides of me.” In the book, these “sides” include vignettes, poetry, short stories, and analysis. “What I try to do is to bring people in through the back door,” he says. “I was an academic dean. I learned all the secrets. Yes, I cannot tell you the secrets, but I can tell you what they mean.”
This episode of OP Talks is part of the Theological Education between the Times (TEBT) series, an initiative out of HTI member school Emory University Candler School of Theology that "gathers diverse groups of people for critical, theological conversations about the meanings and purposes of theological education. The project begins with a recognition that theological education is between the times, on the way. And it works in the confidence that we do not walk this road alone."
In the tradition of bell hooks and Paulo Freire, Jennings’s insightful indictment of the church and university will be an ideal choice for group discussion…When the academy is not a home, but your skin, paying attention requires everything. A fearlessly candid diagnosis of the failures of the theological academy—its soul-killing cultivation of the self-sufficient man builder—Jennings’s poetic truth-telling nevertheless refuses cynicism’s surrender.
— Andrea C. White
Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York
Attempt Great Things for God
Rev. Dr. Sammy Alfaro and Dr. Chloe T. Sun celebrate theological education in diaspora
Rev. Dr. Sammy Alfaro and Dr. Chloe T. Sun celebrate theological education in diaspora
Rev. Dr. Sammy Alfaro talks to Dr. Chloe T. Sun about her book Attempt Great Things for God: Theological Education in Diaspora (Eerdmans, 2020). Part of the TEBT book series, the work was inspired by Dr. Sun’s experience of being born in China and raised in Hong Kong, before coming to the United States to attend college and where she would become a Christian. “In this process of finding my vocation,” she says, “I struggled with the question of who am I, really—in terms of my identity, my ethnic bicultural identity, and my spiritual identity—and so it took me a while to figure that out.” Dr. Sun encourages others to “find that identity in God's Kingdom and to embrace it and to share it with those who have struggles about who they are in this journey of theological education.”
This episode of OP Talks is part of the Theological Education between the Times (TEBT) series, an initiative out of HTI member school Emory University Candler School of Theology that "gathers diverse groups of people for critical, theological conversations about the meanings and purposes of theological education. The project begins with a recognition that theological education is between the times, on the way. And it works in the confidence that we do not walk this road alone."
“This book fills a gap in our knowledge of theological education in the diaspora by showcasing the story of Logos Evangelical Seminary. Chloe Sun challenges the narrative of decline of theological education in America and helps us reimagine the future of theological training with vision and hope. I highly recommend this insightful text.”
— Kwok Pui-lan
Candler School of Theology at Emory University
The Stories We Tell Each Other
Stephen Adubato talks to Angie Cruz about the theological themes and imagery in her novel Dominicana
Stephen Adubato talks to Angie Cruz about the theological themes and imagery in her novel Dominicana
A wedding in Washington Heights, New York City, 1971. Photo: Winston Vargas
Educator Stephen Adubato talks to Angie Cruz about the Catholic themes and imagery present in her novel Dominicana (Flatiron Books, 2019), recently published in Spanish (trans. Kianny Antigua; Editorial Siete Cuentos, 2021). The discussion also touches on how the migration story of Cruz’s mother served as inspiration for the main character Ana Canción. Adubato and Cruz explore how understanding inherited generational trauma can help us heal, and how media frames our view of the world, including visions of ourselves.
“When people speak about why we need more books being published by people of color, why we need more movies made by people of color,” says Cruz, “it's really because storytelling, narrative — even the stories we tell each other — really expand the possibility of how we can move in the world.”
Theological Education between the Times
Dr. Antonio Eduardo Alonso, Lucila Crena, and Rev. Dr. Ted A. Smith introduce a project out of HTI member school Emory University Candler School of Theology
Dr. Antonio Eduardo Alonso, Lucila Crena, and Rev. Dr. Ted A. Smith introduce a project out of HTI member school Emory University Candler School of Theology
Theological Education between the Times (TEBT) is an initiative out of HTI member school Emory University Candler School of Theology that "gathers diverse groups of people for critical, theological conversations about the meanings and purposes of theological education. The project begins with a recognition that theological education is between the times, on the way. And it works in the confidence that we do not walk this road alone."
HTI Open Plaza’s TEBT series features several conversations among the scholars involved in the project, as well as excerpts of related publications. In this introductory OP Talks episode, TEBT Advisory Board member Dr. Antonio Eduardo Alonso (Assistant Professor of Theology and Culture and Director of Catholic Studies) talks to his Candler School colleagues and fellow TEBT leaders—Managing Director Lucila Crena (Instructor of Theology, Ethics, and Culture) and Director Rev. Dr. Ted A. Smith (Professor of Preaching and Ethics)—about the project’s origins. At meetings that spurred conversations and a multi-genre series of books, they gathered to explore a diverse world of thoughts about theological education.
“We met seven times over a couple of years and wrote books together, worshipped together, shared a lot of big moves in our lives together, and now the books are coming out,” says Rev. Dr. Smith. “It’s not really just kind of rolling out the books, it's letting the books be part of a conversation that's now expanding again, sparking new conversations that are deeply contextual where they are. I hope we can start, like, hundreds of little wildfires of theological reflection on theological education, and let the books be part of that, and let them be interconnected.”
