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Article: The gospel about Gospel--the power of the ring.
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- Currents in Theology and Mission
- Article date:
- August 1, 2004
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"I told them today," Albert ("Pete") Pero would often say to me as I met him in the hall coming from one of his classes, "I told them that it's all about ritual."
Never did we go beyond that friendly exchange to test his words of wisdom, but, walking away, I always mused how Pete is one of those who "does" theology to better understand doxology.
When Pete joined the faculty of the Lutheran School of Theology in the late 1970s he began to create a kind of magnetic field in which things African and African American could find energy, be extolled, debated, contextualized, and, above all, embraced, especially since he seemed to contain all of those dynamics ...