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| DOI | 10.1515/opth-2020-0134 |
| Oh, Sufferah Children of Jah: Unpacking the Rastafarian Rejection of Traditional Theodicies | |
| Perkins, Anna Kasafi | |
| 通讯作者 | Perkins, AK |
| 来源期刊 | OPEN THEOLOGY
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| ISSN | 2300-6579 |
| 出版年 | 2020 |
| 卷号 | 6期号:1页码:520-530 |
| 英文摘要 | The article maintains that the theological perspectives of RastafarI continue to be under-researched in the Caribbean context with perhaps more attention being paid to their contributions to the racial, musical and linguistic traditions of the region. In particular, Rasta theodicies are not as clearly articulated as other elements of its belief system even as it is recognised that RastafarI mansions and individual members do not hold homogenous beliefs about many things. The discussion takes as its starting point two prior reflections, "Just Desert or Just Deserts?: God and Suffering in these Perilous Days" (Perkins 2016) and "The Wages of (Sin) is Babylon: Rasta Versus Christian Religious Perspectives of Sin" (Perkins 2012); the former reflection highlights the insufficiency of traditional theodicy to answer the question: "if God is good, why does evil exist?" No one answer can sufficiently do justice to the many dimensions of the question. In that regard, Perkins (2016) argues for attention to the important "answer" that the radical suffering perspective offers to the discussion (Sarah Anderson Rajarigam (2004) too emphasises divine suffering or theopathos, as the response to radical suffering. She frames theopathos not just as an option within theodicy but as an alternative to theodicy, which she derides as "the spoilt child of enlightenment that self-destructively craves for theoretical and philosophical remedies for radical human suffering" (27).). Perkins (2012) explicates a particular Rasta understanding of sin and evil, which are important elements of any theodicy. For Rasta, sin is tri-dimensional - personal, inherited and corporate. Sin in its corporate or social dimension is the most salient as it is moral evil - a rejection of Jah's will - which leads to the oppression of Jah's people. |
| 英文关键词 | theodicy radical suffering RastafarI Jamaica corporate evil Babylon |
| 类型 | Article |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 开放获取类型 | DOAJ Gold |
| 收录类别 | ESCI |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000566722800001 |
| WOS类目 | Religion |
| WOS研究方向 | Religion |
| Scopus学科分类 | St Michaels Theol Coll, Kingston, Jamaica. |
| 资源类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/334578 |
| 作者单位 | [Perkins, Anna Kasafi] Univ West Indies, Off Board Undergrad Studies, Kingston, Jamaica; [Perkins, Anna Kasafi] St Michaels Theol Coll, Kingston, Jamaica |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Perkins, Anna Kasafi. Oh, Sufferah Children of Jah: Unpacking the Rastafarian Rejection of Traditional Theodicies[J],2020,6(1):520-530. |
| APA | Perkins, Anna Kasafi.(2020).Oh, Sufferah Children of Jah: Unpacking the Rastafarian Rejection of Traditional Theodicies.OPEN THEOLOGY,6(1),520-530. |
| MLA | Perkins, Anna Kasafi."Oh, Sufferah Children of Jah: Unpacking the Rastafarian Rejection of Traditional Theodicies".OPEN THEOLOGY 6.1(2020):520-530. |
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