Save us from cynicism

religion and social class

Jung Mo Sung

pp. 43-59

in: Joerg Rieger (ed), Religion, theology, and class, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

Abstract

Any kind of Christian theology today, even in rich and dominant countries, which does not have as its starting point the historic situation of dependence and domination of two thirds of humankind, with its 30 million dead of hunger and malnutrition, will not be able to position and concretize historically its fundamental themes. Its questions will not be the real questions. It will not touch the real person. As observed by a participant in the Buenos Aires gathering, “theology must be rescued from its cynicism.” Certainly, in the face of the problems of today’s world, many theological writings are reduced to cynicism.1