Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
10-1-1994
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Abstract
"In the beginning was the Word," writes John-God's revealing utterance that "was made flesh and lived among us." This incarnational character of the Word, this "living among us," has demanded of Christians in each age a reinterpretation of its original and ongoing meaning. If the protean nature of God's self-expression has seen a continuing "translation" in each age, though, it is becoming increasingly evident among church members that a similar task is also required in each ethnic milieu. The "us" among whom the Word lives is made up of many communities of discourse, and a logocentric theology like Christianity must take special interest in the self-expressive nature of the ongoing local struggles for a forum. Implicated in the colonization of much of the world and the imposition of Western languages, the Church, as a matter of justice, now finds itself examining the role of language in any people's self-definition and consequent worship of God.
Chapter of
Postcolonial Literature and the Biblical Call for Justice
Editor
Susan VanZanten Gallagher
Recommended Citation
Hawley, J. C. (1994). We Wretched of the Earth: The Search for a Language of Justice. In S. V. Gallagher (Ed.), Postcolonial Literature and the Biblical Call for Justice (pp. 125-135) UP of Mississippi.
Comments
Copyright © 1994 University Press of Mississippi. Reprinted with permission.