“It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us”––Teologia en Conjunto: The Practice of Theological Communal Discernment.
A workshop on the practice of theological communal discernment in times of cultural change.
Co-sponsored with the Latino-led Ministries for the Pacific Southwest Conference of the Evangelical Covenant Church. For pastors, parachurch ministers, lay leaders, and all who are interested in the task of biblical and theological learning.
DESCRIPTION
Over the past decade, Covid, war, climate catastrophe, political upheaval, and anti-immigrant rhetoric and policy, have produced radical social and political transformations. At the same time, we have experienced a “browning" of the U.S. and global church, in which the global pendulum of Christianity has shifted to Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and among immigrant churches in the United States. In the midst of such profound cultural and social transformations, our inherited Western theological tradition has some good things to say and some helpful tools, but is insufficient to comprehensively address such profound transformations and the ethical challenges which they pose. In short, we have a crisis of cultural discernment. Drawing upon the Latina/o theology concept of "teología en conjunto" and recent missiological literature, this workshop explores a framework and process of communal theological discernment for our changing times. This framework centers the life of worship, the community and perspectives of the local and global church (intergenerational, intercultural, cross-socioeconomic), and prayerful reflection upon Scripture and the 2,000 year history of the global Church.
ABOUT DR. ROBERT CHAO ROMERO
Dr. Robert Chao Romero is an associate professor in the UCLA Chavez Department of Chicana/o Studies and Central America Studies, and Department of Asian American Studies. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA in Latin American History and his Juris Doctor from U.C. Berkeley. Romero is the author of several award-winning books, including, “Christianity and Critical Race Theory: A Faithful and Constructive Conversation,” “Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity,” and “The Chinese in Mexico, 1882-1940.” Romero is also an ordained minister and faith rooted community organizer.
LOCATION: Berkeley Covenant Church, 1632 Hopkins Street, Berkeley, CA 94707
General Admission $55 / Living Lightly $20 / Student $10
Other details
Nearby street parking is available. There will be light refreshments.
There will be a lunch break (bring your own lunch, or purchase from local eateries).