Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps and Photographs
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: From the Particular to the Global and Back to the Project
- Part 1 THE LAND AS PLACE
- Part 2 LIBERATION THEOLOGY
- Exodus
- Peacemakers Versus Disturbers of the Peace
- Liberation Theology and Vatican II
- Economic Development and Developing Revolutions
- Founders of Liberation Theology
- Leaders and Martyrs of the Revolution
- Martyrs of Liberation Theology
- Base Christian Communities (Communidades de Base)
- Liberation Theology in North America
- Liberation Theology: Jewish and Islamic
- Liberation Theology: Palestinian Christian
- Palestinian Resistance Groups
- The Peacemakers in Israel/Palestine
- Israeli Jewish Peace Groups
- Palestinian Christian and Muslim Peace Groups
- International Peace Groups
- Tragedy Behind the Theology
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Scripture Index
Exodus
from Part 2 - LIBERATION THEOLOGY
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps and Photographs
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: From the Particular to the Global and Back to the Project
- Part 1 THE LAND AS PLACE
- Part 2 LIBERATION THEOLOGY
- Exodus
- Peacemakers Versus Disturbers of the Peace
- Liberation Theology and Vatican II
- Economic Development and Developing Revolutions
- Founders of Liberation Theology
- Leaders and Martyrs of the Revolution
- Martyrs of Liberation Theology
- Base Christian Communities (Communidades de Base)
- Liberation Theology in North America
- Liberation Theology: Jewish and Islamic
- Liberation Theology: Palestinian Christian
- Palestinian Resistance Groups
- The Peacemakers in Israel/Palestine
- Israeli Jewish Peace Groups
- Palestinian Christian and Muslim Peace Groups
- International Peace Groups
- Tragedy Behind the Theology
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Scripture Index
Summary
Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. The Lord drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night, and turned the sea into dry land; and the waters were divided. The Israelites went into the sea on dry ground, the waters forming a wall for them on their right and on their left. The Egyptians pursued, and went into the sea after them, all of Pharaoh's horses, chariots, and chariot drivers… Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Stretch out your hand over the sea, so that the water may come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots and chariot drivers. So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at dawn the sea returned to its normal depth… Thus the Lord saved Israel that day from the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. Israel saw the great work that the Lord did against the Egyptians. So the people feared the Lord and believed in the Lord and in his servant Moses
(Exod. 14:21–23, 26–27, 30–31).Men and women, seemingly at odds, living within the prophetic voice of God, come together in the Exodus story as it is revealed and lived out in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries' Liberation Theology of South America, Central America, South Africa, the Philippines and, now, Palestine. When I worked in the Immigration and Naturalization Service’s (INS) Detention Center, in Boston, Massachusetts, with the Refugee Immigration Ministry (RIM) – a ministry I founded and led from 1986–1989 – no one had been released until he (and they were all men in the facility) was given political asylum or other legal status. Cases had been known to drag on, with appeals, for as long as five years, with the detainees remaining in this one-day-room, one-sleeping-room environment.
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- Shalom/Salaam/PeaceA Liberation Theology of Hope, pp. 107 - 110Publisher: Acumen PublishingPrint publication year: 2008