Truth-Telling as Participation in the Triune God

Abstract

ABSTRACT This essay begins with a theological case study of various Canadian churches' responses to the abuses of the Indian Residential Schools and the Canadian government's Truth and Justice Commission work. It then engages the doctrine of the Trinity as an invitation to participate in the life of the relational God through the church's practices of truth-telling. It examines the role of freedom and the community embeddedness of triune relationality in se and in the particularities of faith communities. It explores truth-telling as a set of powerful practices that both brings God's revelation to this world and draws the church into deeper participation in the Triune God. In particular, it will examine the contributions that baptist women theologians make to speaking truth to theologically backed patriarchal and unjust power structures that they might serve as examples of truth-telling in this apocalyptic age.