“The return of the #myth happens among those who need the #hope it offers.” ~ #DorotheeSölle p. 36

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“Myth is not rendered superfluous in the logos; rather, it is validated there, celebrated and recovered. The strongest testimonies of liberation theology are prayers, liturgies, proposals for how we worship God, in all of which the Christian myth, especially the exodus and resurrection, is dramatized. Something like that can happen only among those who depend on the world being changed and do not withdraw from such undertakings in academic resignation. They need God because the generally espoused view of ‘this world’ that impacts them is a death sentence on the poor: the poor must become even poorer so that the rich may become even richer. It is an illusion to assume that we live in a scientifically transparent and controllable world that can do without belief in the God of justice. It is, after all, only the rich who can comfortably do without God.”

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