Articles by LeAnne Snow Flesher
Rev. Dr. LeAnn Snow Flesher is an ordained minister with the American Baptist Churches, USA, and is Professor of Old Testament at the American Baptist Seminary of the West. To read more of her writings on Liberation Theology, see her article “The De-Domestication of the Cross: The El Salvadoran Experience,” in the April-June 2007 issue of The Living Pulpit focusing on the theme of Atonement. Her most recent book, Left Behind? The Facts Behind the Fiction was published last year by Judson.
By LeAnn Snow Flesher
The significance of the book of Job for the dispossessed in every time period and place cannot be over emphasized. For the book itself is a theodicy, i.e., an attempt to defend the justice and goodness of God in spite of the existence of evil in the world. This in and of itself makes the work significant for dispossessed since much of the violence and evil of this world has been wielded specifically against them often to their surprise and dismay. As a result, the dispossessed have frequently found themselves left alone, in suffering and pain, asking the question(s) “why?” and “how long?”
by Rev. Dr. LeAnn Snow Flesher
Reflections on the Lectionary Readings for September.
by LeAnne Snow Flesher
If we are going to take the Gospel of Jesus Christ seriously we must be at the work of doing theology on behalf of the poor.
