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post! I
thought the same thing.‖
Replies should aim to: make connections that were not made in the
original posts, ask clarifying or probing questions of your peers, offer
up respectful points of disagreement, and / or extend the conversation
out toward other readings from this
course or other courses. Each discuss need one paragraph of reply.
Group discussion instruction
―Practices of personal piety are only a beginning. Real witness occurs
in how
one persistently lives in relating to others and to structures in social
life,
including how one uses one‘s agency to help those in greatest need.
…
[B]eing faithful means living in a ways that bring the meaning of
professions
of faith into systems, institutions, and conventions of social life.‖
~ Rosetta Ross, pp. 224-225 What does it mean to say these women
are engaged in theological
reflection? What is distinctive about their process of theological
reflection – e.g.,
key elements / sources that inform their reflection? How does Ross's
focus on structures, systems, and institutions invite us
to think more deeply about the relationship between servant
leadership,
theology, religious practice, and social justice? Or between our
individual
practices of personal piety and to structures of injustice? Since this is
our last discussion post, I am hoping that you will make
efforts to connect Ross to earlier readings / concepts. This will be
good preparation for the final paper as well. By way of reminder,
here are some resources that might usefully be brought into dialogue
with Ross:
(1) theological reflection lecture from Week 3, (2) womanist lecture
from Week
6, (3) Ngunjiri‘s key concepts of tempered radical, spirited leaders,
and critical