Sentences with phrase «american liberation theologians»

As we all know, Latin American liberation theologians are deeply engaged with Marxism.

«Yet,» she says, «the Latin American liberation theologians have not harshly criticized the Vatican for its stand on birth control and the status of women in the church.

For Christian theologians, the importance of class analysis has been kept alive through the work of Latin American liberation theologians.

The impact of such groups should be understood as a significant sign of the times for the new generation of Latin American liberation theologians.

Whereas the first generation of Latin American liberation theologians was made up primarily of Roman Catholic priests and other male religious leaders, today there are many voices speaking from the perspective of gender or incorporating the rich symbols inherited from a pre-Columbian or an African heritage.

This has happened especially among Latin American liberation theologians, who have worked out the full gamut of Christian doctrines in a way that can lay claim to being a continuation and transformation of the whole tradition.

Throughout, he interacts appreciatively with the theologians of hope and liberation, especially Jurgen Moltmann and the Latin American liberation theologians.

Walker's vision as an African American liberation theologian gives his essay its strength, and tears asunder his harmonious vision of Hartshornean idealism.

Not exact matches

Liberation theology «is obliged» to provide African American theologians with the guidelines for theological construction.

Collaborative and complementary work by process theologians and liberation theologians can contribute to the realization of South American Indian social justice.

When white, middle class, North American process theologians consider our social location seriously and adapt our theology to the understanding that results, North Atlantic process theology as a whole can become complementary to liberation theology.

But the question I am asking is how North American theologians can appropriately respond when they acknowledge the truth, and the critical importance, of what they hear from liberation theologians.

And we North Americans should not claim to be liberation theologians in the Latin American mold.

This failure can be illustrated with the same example, for although Marxists on the whole have been less sexist in their attitudes than have psychoanalysts, they appear only a little less deficient when viewed in the light of contemporary feminist consciousness.37 Or, again, use of Marxist sociology by Latin American theologians of liberation has done little to free them from implicit anti-Judaism in their theological formulations.

It seemed to us that another virtue of Latin American liberation theology had been to alert North American and European theologians to the fact that they, too, were producing contextual theology from a perspective no less particular than that of their Latin American colleagues.

Thus, there is a key subtext in Sigmund's book, a kind of subliminal message to be received by North American readers already caught up in celebrating perestroika: «Come now, liberation theologians, announce this day whom you shall serve, the revolution of old or the democracies that are growing in this bright new day.»

One of the premier liberation theologians, Juan Luis Segundo, has said that «Latin American theology has been mainly interested in going back to the primitive circumstances where, in the proximity of Jesus of Nazareth, Christians began to do theology.»

But most male white North American process theologians will not become liberation theologians for the same reason that the German theologians are not liberation theologians.

If he had done so, perhaps American white theologians would not have ignored the black freedom struggle and would have been less hostile toward the rise of black liberation theology.

He was a liberation theologian before the phrase was coined by African - American and Latin American religious thinkers in the late Sixties and early Seventies.

Again, in 1984, when Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, with the pope's approval, issued his critique of liberation theology, most Latin American theologians sidestepped it by saying that what Ratzinger was describing was not liberation theology but a caricature, and hence his criticisms did not apply to them or their colleagues.

Unfortunately, Turner and O'Donovan's essays evince the continuing ignorance of liberation theology on the part of European and North American theologians.

Latin American theologians knew with anticipation that Rome was preparing a document on Liberation Theology.

For two decades, liberation theologians blamed Latin American misery on «capitalist methods» such as markets, private property, and profits, and they looked for economic salvation by way of a «socialist» strategy of «basic needs.»

Among the far - reaching effects of the great antisocialist revolutions of 1989 is one that has so far not received a proper measure of attention, and that is their impact on Latin American liberation theology At least one liberation theologian, observing the collapse of the socialist dream in Eastern Europe, publicly expressed fear that the two estranged parts of «the North,» East and West, would now embrace each other heartily and forget the South.

Latin American theologians find, like Rauschenbusch, that there is a movement of liberation already in motion and that their task is to develop a «theology large enough to match it and vital enough to back it».

Moltmann's care not to identify Christianity with any one political programme or party gave to Latin American theologians of liberation the impression that he, like other European theologians, preferred to remain politically neutral and to theorize only on the universal plane.

Further, Black liberation theologians pointed out how little the Social Gospel dealt with the oppression of African - Americans.

Latin American theologians of liberation and their North American sympathizers attacked realism as «the ideology of the Establishment» that served to justify and legitimate oppressive policies.