Sentences with phrase «christian liberation theologians»
Christian liberation theologians have been clear in their emphasis on human rights of the peoples oppressed due to racism, colonialism or gender.
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In alliance with liberation theologians and other concerned Christians, they have had some success.
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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.
His article Christian Social Spiritualitypromotes Liberation Theology and he cites approvingly Jon Sobrino, just as Gerard Mannion quotes approvingly whom he calls «the esteemed moral theologian, Charles E. Curran.»
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 interpretation developed in the base Christian communities was paralleled by the work of theologians and biblical scholars, who articulated the principles of liberation hermeneutics in a series of important studies (see, especially Leonardo Boff and Clodovis Boff, Introducing Liberation Theology, and J. Severino Croatto, Biblical Hermeneutics: Toward a Theory of Reading in the Production ofliberation hermeneutics in a series of important studies (see, especially Leonardo Boff and Clodovis Boff, Introducing Liberation Theology, and J. Severino Croatto, Biblical Hermeneutics: Toward a Theory of Reading in the Production ofLiberation Theology, and J. Severino Croatto, Biblical Hermeneutics: Toward a Theory of Reading in the Production of Meaning).
In the question - answer session that followed the lecture, Pannenberg called on Christian theologians to follow the lead of the early church fathers and offer a more creative approach to the task of doing theology in the face of the world's injustices than that found in Marxist - oriented liberation theologies.
Meanwhile, liberation theologians have protested that postliberal theology is more concerned with Christian catechesis, formation and liturgy than with the struggle for social justice.
Liberation theologians want to make sure that Christian faith will not be used as ideological support for selfish interests and repressive situations.
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Against sacralism, liberation theologians point to the many ideological distortions of Christian faith to legitimate dominative power - complexes and value - conflicts in which that faith is used to victimize the poor, women, non-European races, the environment, and the defenseless.
Since the first centuries of our Common Era when Christian theologians were forging the categories of a new religion in an old world, and since the Reformations of the 16th and 17th centuries when Christian theologians were dismantling the religious legitimations of a decadent Christendom, liberation theologians are not arriving, a little breathless and a little late, at deep cultural transformations which have already occurred.
As the ills of capitalism became apparent in the late 19th century and as various forms of socialism — Soviet, democratic, Chinese - developed in the 20th century, notable Christian theologians — Tillich, the early Reinhold Niebuhr, the early Brunner and, more recently, liberation theologians - have advocated the wedding of Christian ethics with socialist economic practice.
For Christian theologians, the importance of class analysis has been kept alive through the work of Latin American liberation theologians.
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I think James Cone is right when he says: «Theologians of the Christian Church have not interpreted Christian ethics as an act for the liberation of the oppressed because their views of divine revelation were defined by philosophy and other cultural values rather than by the biblical theme of God as the liberator of the oppressed.»
Recently conflicts have arisen as some liberal theologians have sought to abort the liberation theology effort (cf. «Protestant Liberalism Reaffirmed,» by Deane William Ferm, The Christian Century, April 28, 1976, p. 411).
It may be that, chagrined over recent developments, liberation theologians have indeed moved from radical social reconstruction to Christian spirituality.
Liberation theologians who want to appreciate the truly radical ways of Jesus might ponder these words of Hans Küng, who writes in On Being a Christian that Jesus» revolutionary method means «love of enemies instead of their destruction; unconditional forgiveness instead of retaliation; readiness to suffer instead of using force; blessing for peacemakers instead of hymns of hate and revenge» (p. 191)
Liberation theologians pointed out that we were identifying Christian theology with white, male, European theology.
The liberation theologians have found far richer resources in Christian tradition than in Enlightenment writers.
Theologian James Cone, who as a founder of black liberation theology linked Christian faith with the struggle against racism and oppression, died April 28, 2018.