Sentences with phrase «asian liberation theology»
I find Asian liberation theology especially provocative, but the least known to Western readers.
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«Caste», «Liberation», «Asian Theology», — articles in The Dictionary of the Ecumenical Movement, WCC Publications, 1991.
As we list here several contemporary Asian theologians of liberation (there are many more) who are forging theologies unique to their own particular situation, we should remember — as these individuals keep reminding us — that Asia is a many - splendored continent and that, despite features common to all liberation theology, each country (and even some regions within a country) must have a theology built to its own cultural specifications.
In the past few decades liberation, feminist and Asian theologies have been instrumental in reaffirming the reality that culture is specific to particular groups or regions.
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 order to challenge his emphasis, the delegates from the Philippines issued their national group report, in which they agreed with him on the two essential characteristics of Asian theology: its «third - worldness» (sociopolitical liberation of the poor) and its «Asianness» (the religiocultural dimensions).
Therefore «the primary thrust and concern... of Asian third world theology is liberation (which to be authentic must be indigenized or inculturated); inculturation, though an essential and unavoidable task, takes second place.»
Liberation is emerging as Asian theology's chief motif.
«Popular Religion and Asian Contextual Theology,» in Popular Religion, Liberation and Contextual Theology (ed.
Because Asian theology focuses on liberation, it must also be a servant theology — one arising out of a commitment to serve the poor and the oppressed.
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.
And other theological voices (black liberation, feminist, Islamic, Asian, Hispanic, African, Jewish, and Western white male traditional) will provide insights relevant for the construction of the God - content of womanist theology.