Description Christian Theology at its core is a story about someone being in trouble.
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Using pain, faith and testimony as tools to struggle against Breast cancer Black survivors\' Theology transforms them from victims of Breast cancer to change agents.
Borne out of experiences of the Black Church, womanist Theology and their intersectional identities of race, class and gender, this theological investigation, informed by anthropology, examines how Black Women construct an ontology of who God is and how God operates and gain a God consciousness that shapes their response to the disease.
Black Women with Breast cancer construct a Cultural Theology of Breast cancer out of knowing God.
For with God, their troubles do not last always.
And because they know God as an overcomer and creative force, they know themselves as overcomers.
They know this God, through scripture and experience, as God who puts them front and center.
They know an active God who identifies with and prioritizes their needs.
But, Black Women also know God in their troubles.
Black Women feel the myriad troubles Breast cancer brings.
Black Women also palpably feel the troubles Breast cancer brings like fear, physical disfigurement, social isolation, being stereotyped for treatment decisions, abandonment and even death.
They see the troubles of Breast cancer, their biological disposition towards more aggressive cancers, later stage diagnoses, poorer prognoses, diminished quality of care and worse outcomes.
They see themselves in the midst of troubles, troubles like racism, poverty and environmental exposures that create the disease affecting their bodies.
They also see themselves in this theological narrative.
Black Women with Breast cancer identify with this God.
God is an overcomer.
God prevails over trouble.
Yet, the God of Christian Theology goes a step further.
God identifies with those in trouble, walking with them through the experience.
In response to this trouble, the triune God intervenes.
Description Christian Theology at its core is a story about someone being in trouble
