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Dorothee Solle Biography

Dorothee Steffensky-Sölle (born Nipperdey; 30 September 1929 – 27 April 2003) was a German liberation theologian and writer who coined the term Christofascism. She was born in Cologne and died at a congress in Göppingen.

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What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities.

Events, Important, Possibilities, Waiting

Religion is made up of unrestrained wishes.

Made, Religion, Unrestrained, Wish, Wishes

There is no wrong suffering. There is imaginary, sham, feigned, simulated, pretended suffering. But the assertion that someone suffers for the right or wrong reason presupposes a divine, all-penetrating judgment able to distinguish historically obsolete forms of suffering from those in our time, instead of leaving this decision to the sufferers themselves.

Decision, Historically, Judgment, Leaving, Sufferers, Suffering

toleration of exploitation, oppression, and injustice points to a condition lying like a pall over the whole of society; it is apathy, an unconcern that is incapable of suffering.

Apathy, Like, Lying, Suffering

To be content with the world as it is is to be dead.

Complacency, Content, Dead, World

Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allow to starve.

Confirm, Diversity, Justice, People, Religion

A competitive society is a society of envy.

Competition, Competitive, Envy, Society

Bible texts are best read with a pair of glasses made out of today's newspaper.

Bible, Glasses, Newspaper, Pair, Today

Every acceptance of suffering is an acceptance of that which exists. The denial of every form of suffering can result in a flight from reality in which contact with reality becomes ever thinner, ever more fragmentary. It is impossible to remove oneself totally from suffering, unless one removes oneself from life itself, no longer enters into relationships, makes oneself invulnerable.

Acceptance, Oneself, Reality, Relationships, Suffering

To take sides with life and experience how we can transcend ourselves is a process that has many names and faces. Religion is one of those names.

Faces, Names, Process, Sides, Take

God has no other hands than ours.

God, Hands

Our whole life consists of despairing of an answer and seeking an answer.

Answers, Consists, Life, Seeking, Whole, Whole Life

All fundamentalist theologians make the ordinances of creation an essential part of creation and absolutize them. Women belong at home, fulfil their life through motherhood, by caring for their husbands and serving them. The fixed role pattern of one particular economic and family order is transformed into an order willed by God and given by creation. With a methodologically similar logic, slaves were understood as those elected by God to serve the whites.

Caring, Elected, Family, Home, Husband, Women

With the disappearance of God the Ego moves forward to become the sole divinity.

Divinity, Ego, Forward, Moves, Moving, Sole

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