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considering the importance of the closing paragraph (page 115).

"Theology and Church therefore failed to develop communal structures capable of socializing children into the Christian values of coequality in community, commitment, and discipleship, rather than into the cultural values and patriarchal roles of superordination and subordination, of masculinity and femininity." -91

"Salvation here should not be understood just as salvation of the soul, but in the biblical sense of total human salvation and wholeness. It cannot be limited to the liberation from sin, but must be understood to mean also liberation from social and political oppression." (40)