ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author explores their ways of being in relation to God incarnate as spirit, as shape-shifting disturber and sustainers of life. Witness is one way to explore what it means to be a human being in relation to God as spirit. The self in relation to God incarnate is a witness. The author looks at the legacy of American liberal theology: its commitment to justice and the social good, its openness to human knowledge as informing theology, it’s relativising of exclusive Christian claims to truth, and it is support of democracy. Christian theology has confused sin and han and has profoundly distorted our ability to understand the complexities of human resistance to evil and the suffering injustice causes. In the face of life-threatening domestic violence and other forms of violation and abuse, the church has counselled silent suffering and forgiveness, using the moral example of Jesus' self-sacrifice.
