HT 567-60 Imagining Salvation. In our study of soteriology, we engage global theologies:
- Grene L. Green, K.K. Yeo, eds. So Great a Salvation: Soteriology in the Majority World (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans 2017). Especially chapters on soteriology in the contexts of Kenya, Botswana, Latin America, and Korean Peninsula.
- Nancy Pineda-Madrid, Suffering and Salvation in Ciudad Juarez (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2011).
- We begin each class with a sin/salvation themed song that comes from the global church, including songs sung in other languages. We discuss the spiritual discipline of "praying the prayers of others" in their languages, metaphors, and musical styles, and how a practice of doing so regularly in a congregation is formative of their theological and ecclesial imaginations. For example:
- "Perdón, Señor," Jorge Lockwood (Spanish)
- "Óyenos, mi Dios," Bob Hurt (Spanish)
- Psalm 136 sung by the Abayudaya congregation, a Jewish community in Uganda (Ugandan)
- "Come to be our hope, O Jesus," Marcilio de Olviera Filho (Portuguese)
- "Ososo," Geonyong Lee, (Korean)
- "Mayenziwe," (Xhosa)
My own global engagement:
Invited participant, “What is it to have a home?: Creation Theology in Domestic Life and Beyond” Trippet Hall, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana, May 4-6, 2022. (A conference bringing together Scandinavian and North American theologians working together on Creation Theology.)
Mary Emily Duba, “Living on Borrowed Ground: Inhabitation as Lived Creation Theology,” in Bodies Inhabiting the World: Scandinavian Creation Theology and the Question of Home, eds. Derek R. Nelson, Niels Henrik Gregersen, and Bengt Kristensson Uggla (Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2023).