Sentences with phrase «american liberation theology»

’16 «On the cross», writes Philip Berryman in his summary of Latin American Liberation Theology, «God takes on human suffering, becomes himself «a crucified God.»»

The three most important were Black theology and feminist theology, arising in the United States itself, and Latin American liberation theology.

The relation to the poor inside the church, outside the church, nearby and far away, is the criterion to judge the authenticity and credibility of the church's missionary engagement.38 In this affirmation, the Conference had been greatly influenced by Latin American Liberation Theology, especially the pronouncement of the Roman Catholic Bishops» Conference in Pueblo (Mexico), on the preferential option for the poor.

Melbourne, under the influence of Latin American Liberation Theology and the Conference of Roman Catholic Bishops (Medellin in 1968) and Puebla in 1979), rightly stated that God had a preferential option for the poor, and the principle or yardstick to judge the authenticity and credibility of the church's missionary engagement was the relationship of the church to the poor.

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.

As in African theology, Latin American liberation theology and theologies of the oppressed in North America, the search for an Asian theology has its origin in the recognition that Euro - American theology is totally inadequate to provide universal concepts of religious understanding.

This emphasis coincides with the best of Latin American liberation theology.

Robert McAfee Brown, in an introduction to Theology in the Americas (edited by Sergio Torres and John Eagleson [Orbis, 1976]-RRB-, suggests four ways in which the challenges of Latin American liberation theology can be evaded.

One could hardly imagine a progressive divinity school without a significant interpreter of feminist and Latin American liberation theology.

Mujerista theology brings together elements of feminist theology, Latin American liberation theology and cultural theology, three perspectives which critique and challenge each other, giving birth to new elements, a new reality, a new whole.

An exploration of the emergence of mujerista theology — which brings together elements of feminist theology, Latin American liberation theology and cultural theology.

When an interviewer asked the pastor of one of the churches in Leipzig that had provided the space, the inspiration and the preparation for the East German revolution of November 1989 what the theological basis for his contribution was, he answered that it was «Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Latin American liberation theology.»

At the opposite extreme, Latin American liberation theology has had much the relation to Latin American churches that the social gospel had to the North American churches.

As in African theology, Latin American liberation theology and theologies of the oppressed in North America, the search for an Asian theology has its origin...

Other essays in the collection compare and contrast Hartshorne's theism with Latin American liberation theology (Peter C. Phan), with phenomenology and Buddhism (Hiroshi Endo), and with European philosophy (André Cloots and Jan Van der Veken).

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.

Latin American liberation theology can not provide a last reservoir of meaning for a jaded church that does not wish to seek first the kingdom of God and God's righteousness.

Latin American liberation theology also functions emphatically as a biblical hermeneutic and in this respect is encouraged.

It would complicate this paper too much to deal with all the theologies of liberation; so in this paper I shall limit the reference to Latin American liberation theology.

In the latter decades of the twentieth century, the phrase liberation theology often has been used synonymously with Latin American liberation theology.

«The Religious Legitimation of Counter-violence; Insights from Latin American Liberation Theology.»

In light of this ravaging of people and land in Central America, we realize that the preferential option for the poor, characteristic of Latin American liberation theologies, must be articulated as a preferential option for life.

Whereas process theology has just begun to respond to Black and Latin American liberation theologies, the relation to the theology of women's liberation is quite different.

Her more recent interests are in the areas of Latin American liberation theologies and feminist theologies.

North American liberation theologies are not, of course, identical to those of Latin America.

Not exact matches

It is a matter of personal confession that Whitehead's metaphysics, via process theology, the Marxist analysis of capitalism, via Latin American social analysis, and Biblical study, via the theology of liberation, have jointly served to flesh out a vision of reality in which the divine call to socialist revolution has been confirmed and rendered fully compelling.

Rosemary Radford Ruether, Liberation Theology: Human Hope Confronts Christian History and American Power.

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

Can Latin American theologies, too, be part of the emerging consensus that life in its totality, and not human life alone, deserves liberation?

Again the common Catholic background of much, especially Latin American, liberation theology and the basically Catholic matrix of Wesley's thought - and these congruences are not entirely accidental.

I am glad that blacks and women and Latin Americans have, throughout the decade been demanding that theology be so formulated as to call for and advance human liberation.

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.

Though not in the camp of liberal Protestantism, ELCA Lutheranism is so positioned in the American religious scene as to be deeply affected by all the movements, «theologies of,» and liberation forces of the past decades.

The pastor espoused a black liberation theology that equates Jesus» life and death with the plight of those who Wright saw as disenfranchised, from African - Americans to Palestinians.

Liberation theology found some of its first expressions in Latin America and among African Americans, but now includes a range of expressions, including feminist and womanist theology.

You might enjoy Sallie McFague's book Life Abundant where she describes what she calls «a liberation theology for white North American Christians.»

Is it the American form of liberation theology, belatedly discovered by Latin American Catholics, Third World Protestants and others who had not previously been led beyond their distinctive forms of pietism by historicism and sociology?

Why do you think that video struck such a nerve, and what might the reaction to it reveal about common misconceptions about liberation theology among the American public?

While Central American nations on our doorstep are still beaten down — economically, politically, militarily — by recurring acts of institutionalized violence like these, there persists a future for liberation theology that names these acts «sin.»

What we learned from the Detroit Conference on Liberation Theology (August 1975) was that the North American reality is different from that of Latin America.

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.»

The Pope is espousing the essence of Liberation Theology, which started in Latin American, where he is from.

In my view, once you start going down the WWJD Road, you're now on the same road used by both Latin American and Black Liberation Theology which takes Jesus out of context to justify socialism which in the United States is supported by progressive liberals.

His willingness to speak against this movement has not endeared him to some members of the American theological community, who have become increasingly supportive of liberation theology and increasingly willing to use Marxist categories in criticizing social structures.

Two such schools of thought have been North American process theology based on the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead and liberation theology which originated in the struggles of Third World peoples for economic, political,...

Two such schools of thought have been North American process theology based on the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead and liberation theology which originated in the struggles of Third World peoples for economic, political, and social independence but now has broadened to include the aspiration of minority groups (e.g., women and blacks) even within affluent First World countries.

It is my contention that a theology of Black liberation also must embrace an organic worldview, not only because it is consistent with the authentic roots of Black Americans but because it also represents something fundamental in the Biblical tradition.

Dalit theology has obviously borrowed from recent Latin American liberation and Korean minjung theologies, although there were warnings from the podium and from the floor that more nuanced modes of analysis should be cultivated.

Justice as a key to the symbolic life of Christianity is represented not only in feminist theology but also in African — American, Latin American and other forms of liberation theology.

It is almost treasonous to deal with Latin American theologies of liberation by lifting up individual thinkers who successfully wrote for publication.