Cynicism, the profound distrust in human possibilities, the banal acquisance in evil that results from presuming 'there is nothing we can do about it [the economic system, the war system, the interlocked systems of oppressions] has resulted in theologies of passivity and "coping." The churches have become like private gymnasiums that coach the people who come hungry for a spirituality of empowerment with impotent spiritualities of private peace and serenity.

How to rescue theology from cynicism and irrelevance? How to rescue the churches from accomodation to a system that is destroying our creation and dooming the generations to a tyranny of limits created by the domination system.

We must renew our theological work, we need a liberation theology of public engagement.