Fresh Expressions require fresh voices by Rev Dr Christy Capper
Sometimes it is helpful to get a ‘fresh take’ on an old idea. Getting a fresh perspective or looking at something from a different point of view can help us understand an idea better and understand ourselves better.
For much of the past 2000 years of Christian theology, perspective has been pretty limited. Early Christian theologians were generally situated around the Mediterranean and lived in the Roman Empire. As time went on, this moved into the Orthodox traditions in the East and the Western, Catholic (and later Protestant) traditions in the West. But much of the theology was still dominated by European attitudes and understandings. Viewpoints from anyone other than a European man were scarce. Colonialism expanded this somewhat, but theology was still the domain of white men. In the 20th century, this started to change as women, people of colour and those in the Global South and Asia fought their
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