Lesson 41: How Do We Determine God’s Word – Community 3

I find myself unable or maybe unwilling to do much while on vacation. So I decided to simply suggest you read this piece by Dorothy Solle that Sister Rita sent me.

Dorothee Sölle was a free thinking German theologian who died in 2003. She spoke out against the Vietnam War, the arms race of the Cold War and injustices in the developing world. Between 1975 and 1987, she spent six months a year at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, where she was a professor of systematic theology. She regarded herself as a radical Christian who refused to leave the Church, because no matter how much it disappointed her, it was home.

She is often cited as coining the term “Christofascist” to describe fundamentalists.

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