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By Michael Jimenez

ISBN-10: 1498234852

ISBN-13: 9781498234856

ISBN-10: 1498234879

ISBN-13: 9781498234870

Remembering Lived Lives is a non secular historiography booklet that makes a speciality of matters and theorists positioned essentially in Latin the USA. rather than becoming a member of the refrain of up to date ecu intellectuals like Slavoj Žižek, who insist on a renewed Eurocentrism, this examine demanding situations either historians and theologians to take heavily the paintings performed through theorists situated in what Enrique Dussel calls the bottom of modernity. this can be an interdisciplinary paintings that opens with Karl Barth's define for historical-theological learn and closes with an research of the movie The Mission. Written for either the background or theology teacher and pupil, it offers with topics like church historical past, biography as theology, liberation theology as fundamental resource fabric, photos, and ancient movies.

"Postcolonial in place, decolonial in schedule, and transoccidental in approach, Michael Jimenez's Remembering Lived Lives is a welcomed contribution to the fields of Latino/a international reviews and international Christian background. Jimenez engages independent serious disciplines of the yank worldwide South akin to Dussel's idea of transmodernity, Mignolo's border considering, and Anzaldua's mestiza recognition to provide replacement historiographic routes, accordingly, pointing to the restoration and discovery of Christian wisdom from a unique position, non-Eurocentered and but now not anti-Western."
--Oscar Garcia-Johnson, PhD, affiliate Dean, affiliate Professor of Theology & Latin American experiences, heart for the research of Hispanic Church and group, Fuller Theological Seminary

"Michael Jimenez's Remembering Lived Lives is a turning aspect in pondering throughout the serious encounters among theology and historical past. The large catholicity of his studying pushes what serious thinkers have performed during the last area of a century in the direction of new horizons, even past the anticipation of these thinkers he examines with unsurpassed precision and tenacity. an excellent journey de force!"  
--Hamid Dabashi, Columbia University 

Michael Jimenez (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) is an teacher of either heritage and theology at a couple of faculties in Southern California, together with Azusa Pacific University.

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