Zionism, The Church's Colonial Legacy & The Palestinian Call

With Palestine as the entry point, we will focus on the church's struggle to reclaim the core of the gospel given its historical entanglement with colonialism and Empire. We will train a critical theory lens on Christian Zionism in light of the philojudaic revisionism that theologians and church leaders have undertaken in the post-holocaust era. We will enter deeply into the kairos theology of the South African church struggle and the flowering of Palestinian kairos theology, and understand the weaponization of antisemitism in the context of Christian nationalism through the lenses of scripture, public theology & church history.