Abstract
In an opinion piece published online in the Sunday Review of the New York Times about ten days after the 2016 presidential election, Columbia University Professor Mark Lilla argues that “the age of identity liberalism must be brought to an end.” The election results were due to what he calls “the rhetoric of diversity” which inevitably excludes because in “calling out” or naming specific groups of people, one risks leaving out others. This article counters Lilla’s claim and suggests that a theological commitment to “solidarity of others” as introduced by Anselm Kyongsuk Min provides us with a model for embracing diversity and particularlity in service to liberation. A theology concerned only with the liberation of its particular people devolves into a particularism that contributes to the atomization of a global society into disconnected parts. This article argues that our stories, while particular, are also profoundly interconnected and intertwined. Therefore, our liberation is interconnected and intertwined.
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