Letter to the editor: 'Radical revision' of church's traditional missionary theology is needed
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article38857
- Author
- Wild, Robert
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2015 December
- Author
- Wild, Robert
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2015 December
- Volume
- 141
- Issue
- 10
- Page
- 5
- Notes
- "It is now clear that Canadian Anglicans sincerely regret the role our church played in the tragedy of the residential school system, which injured so many Aboriginal children and their subsequent social life. I wonder, though, if we are sufficiently aware of the role that our theology played in those events, a theology that, to my knowledge, we have not yet officially repudiated". "But perhaps a more radical revision of our theology is needed -- one that helps to locate our faith in Jesus, and in the presence of the sacred, within the context of a tiny planet in an ever-expanding universe".
- Subjects
- Native peoples - Canada - Missions
- Anglican Church of Canada - Residential schools
- Theology - Anglican Church of Canada