RT Article
T1 A Sin against Humanity and God: the Genocide of the Palestinian People and the Churches’ Silence
JF Toronto journal of theology
VO 40
IS 2
SP 222
OP 233
A1 Andraos, Michel
A1 Barter Moulaison, Jane 1969-
A2 Barter Moulaison, Jane 1969-
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1907578552
AB At its annual meeting in June 2024, the members of the Canadian Theological Society passed a motion of solidarity with Palestinians and student protesters in encampments at universities around the globe.1 The statement lamented the loss of over 40,000 lives in Palestine (at time of writing), including 15,000 children; condemned the scholasticide in Gaza; and articulated our condolences and solidarity with those students and faculty members there who continue to learn and teach in the most horrific of circumstances. The statement was also an articulation of the society's commitment to learning from Palestinian Christians and to heed their call for Western theologians, educational institutions, and churches to repent of their long-standing indifference to their suffering and to their complicity in their ongoing genocide. In this essay, the authors unpack the impetus, meaning, and significance of this motion for Canadian theology today as they urge Canadian theological institutions and churches to critically and urgently assess their historical indifference to and complicity in the ongoing Nakba of the Palestinian people. The authors also call on Canadian theologians to investigate the abiding connections between the theological justification of settler colonialism in Canada and Palestine, and the genocide of indigenous peoples.
K1 Decolonization
K1 Evangelization
K1 indigenous church
K1 Indigenous Peoples
K1 Settler Colonialism
DO 10.3138/tjt-2024-0040