EATWOT

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EATWOT is the abbreviation for Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians - for example: "Ecumenical Association of Theologians of the Third World".

Foundation and structure

Oscar Bimwenyi-Kweshi from the Democratic Republic of the Congo was a key figure in founding EATWOT. In December 1974 while studying at Leiden University , Bimwenyi attended the general assembly of the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in India and discussed the need for a network of theologians to address the urgent needs of poverty and oppression in India the third world to solve.

Then in August 1976, the association was during the Congress "Statement of the Ecumenical Dialogue of Third World Theologians: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania August 5-12, 1976" in Dar es Salaam in Tanzania , founded. Today it includes theologians from various Christian churches and denominations , as well as from all parts of the world, especially from Africa , Asia and Latin America . EATWOT has regional groups in these three continents and there is also a regional group of ethnic minorities in North America.

The first president was from India Joshua Russell Chandran (1918-2000), an office he held until 1981.

aims

EATWOT is liberation theological oriented, which means that the members of the association work towards the fact that their theology offers solutions for the economic, social, political and cultural situation of the people in whose countries they live.

The goals of the association are better exchange between theologians of the South, deepening of theological work on all continents and dialogue with the real realities of life of people in different regions of the world. For this purpose, regional and global assemblies, conferences and seminars are organized and publications and translations are made possible.

literature

  • José María Vigil (Ed.): Theology of Liberation and Poscolonial Thought. Teología de la Liberación y Pensamiento Poscolonial. Issue Edited by EATWOT's Latin American Theological Commission. Volume XXXVII Nº 2014/1, New Series January-April 2014 [1]
  • Virginia Fabella , Mercy A. Oduyoye : With Passion and Compassion: Third World Women Doing Theology: Reflections from the Women's Commission of the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians. Wipf and Stock Publishers, Eugene, Oregon 2006, ISBN 978-1-59752-500-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ in Spanish : Asociación Ecuménica de Teólogos del Tercer Mundo (ASETT); French : Association oecuménique des théologiens du Tiers-monde
  2. ^ MP Joseph: Theologies of the Non-Person: The Formative Years of EATWOT. Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2015, ISBN 978-1-137-55054-5 , pp. 1-3.