I figured that I could kinda go over notes by typing to you my notes and the notes from the textbook. Feel free to use these, or you can listen to the other people and look for yourself.
DIVERSITY OF EXPRESSION OF ABORIGINAL BELIEF SYSTEMS AND SPIRITUALITY TODAY.
Rainbow Spirit Theology
Rainbow Spirit theology is a term applied to one attempt to integrate Christian beliefs with Aboriginal Spirituality. A number of Aboriginal Christian leaders from the Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran and Uniting Churches met for the discussions in 1994 and 1995 and developed several ideas. Some saw the theology as an attempt by Christians to absorb Aboriginal culture; others as syncretism and akin to heresay; while for others it was a good attempt to reconcile the two.
INTEGRATION OF CHRISTIANITY AND ABORIGINAL BELIEF SYSTEMS.
By the beginning of the 21st century, there had been several generations of Christian missionary activity among and by Aboriginal people. The Christian scriptures have been translated into Aboriginal languages and are used by Aboriginal clergy and laypeople. Aboriginal people have studied theology at graduate and post graduate levels. These factors have helped the development of Indigenous Christian Theology. If there are oppisite principals in Christian and Indigenous theology then there must be efforts to reconcile or syncretise them. More often, Aboriginal theologians have used the symbols and rituals from their own Indigenous culture to express their Christian theology. The integration of Christianity and Aboriginal belief systems into an Indigeous contextualised theology has been one of the most significant Australian contributions to the Christian theology in the past 30 years. For many Aboriginal people today, the old ways are taking new significance. Aboriginal people may combine belief in the Christian God with the Aboriginal concept of the earth mother.
