The class I am taking this quarter is called "The African Roots of Black Theology". Besides being taught by one of the best professors at Fuller, Ralph Watkins, it also is full of meaty content. I mean this stuff is good enough to sop up with a biscuit!
We have been reading some thick stuff on the African origins of civilization and how that has influenced the Judeo Christian tradition and how white culturally constructed Christianity has not recognized and even rejected this very notion because of racism. Alot of the key texts we have been reading have centered around Egyptian religion and mythology and how that influenced the Judeo Christian as well as the Greco Roman traditions. One of the things that has remained mysterious is the great statue in Thebes known as the Sphinx. This statue is Negroid in features and has been reported to have originated in Ethiopia. The funny thing is I was waling on Madison ave behind Fuller and there are two statues in front of the Scottish Rite Cathedral that are Sphinxes but with Caucasian features complete with ankhs (Egyptian crosses) and everything. What does it all mean?
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