The Place of the Bible

As a human community we are living through a time of profound questioning as we reconnect ourselves to the sacred sources of life, placing us as a thread woven into the fabric of life in which it is essential that we see ourselves in all our diversity, so we can move away from the cultural and relig...

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Published in:Concilium
Main Author: Chipana Quispe, Sofía ca. 21. Jh. (Author)
Format: Print Article
Language:English
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Published: SCM Press [2019]
In: Concilium
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Andes / Indians / Bible / Hermeneutics
IxTheo Classification:CD Christianity and Culture
HA Bible
KBR Latin America
VB Hermeneutics; Philosophy
Further subjects:B Cultural Pluralism
B Religious Diversity
B Bible
B Life
B Religious Aspects
B Colonization
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Summary:As a human community we are living through a time of profound questioning as we reconnect ourselves to the sacred sources of life, placing us as a thread woven into the fabric of life in which it is essential that we see ourselves in all our diversity, so we can move away from the cultural and religious hegemony imposed throughout the history of the colonisation of Abya YalaJ It would, therefore, be both healthy and healing if we were not to consider the Bible as the one and only word of God, so that we may fully recognise in other texts, words, fabrics, songs, memories, tales and dances, the richness of the many languages of the Mystery of Life; variously experienced, embedded and named by the peoples linked to its ancient past and which have allowed them to continue being and existing.
ISSN:0010-5236
Contains:Enthalten in: Concilium