Sentences with phrase «christian liberation theology»

One often gets the impression that formulating this experience as a Christian liberation theology is more for political or institutional reasons than out of any deep commitment to Christ.

Herein lies the stirring challenge of Third World Christian liberation theology».

Introduction In inviting me to participate, Professor Joseph Bracken asked that I present some of the foundational elements in contemporary Christian liberation theologies relative to the issues of social justice.

In inviting me to participate, Professor Joseph Bracken asked that I present some of the foundational elements in contemporary Christian liberation theologies relative to the issues of social justice.

Not exact matches

As for theology, the word means speaking - of - God, which in Christian terms means speaking of the One who is Truth — the Truth Who makes us free in the deepest meaning of human liberation.

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

Similarly, a black theology of liberation or a feminist theology of liberation may, like the university theology its proponents criticize, be little more than ideological expressions of autonomous political movements that owe no fundamental allegiance to the Christian vision.

Whitehead's belief that reality is ultimately rational and that God saves the world through the overwhelming power of rationality ignores an element basic to Christian theology and is woefully inadequate as a liberation theology.

They reread the Bible and reinterpret Christian tradition and theology from their experience of oppression and liberation.

Surely the liberal christian communities would come to see the rightness of the theologies of liberation being generated globally by christians and others struggling for bread and dignity.

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

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.»

If by «liberation» people mean that Christian thought and life are to be socially engaged, committed to those forms of systemic change necessary for the greater actualization of social justice, and open to the dynamic movements of the Spirit among the people, then there is little doubt: the Social Gospel is America's indigenous form of liberation theology.

He contends, first, that liberation theology should free its social analysis from a preoccupation with global «dependent capitalism» and move toward more specific analyses of land reform and of other pressing needs which would help popular Christian movements be «more politically effective at a national level.»

Union and NCBC became the theological and political contexts for reflecting upon the relation between Christian theology and the black liberation struggle.

In particular I think the theological style associated with the various «liberation theologies» tends to continue the assumption that Christians have a stake in using violence to make history «come out right» — except that now power will be used to aid the oppressed.

Reverend Wright's «hate» sermons against America and white people are virtually identical as Farrakhan's - who followed Malcolm X. Wright's «hate» speeches are a blend of The Nation of Islam and Black Nationalist Liberation Theology into a subversive Christianity, not recognized by most black Christians.

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 first phase of «Marxist reductionism» and «mindless revolutionism» was followed by a second phase wherein liberation theology became oriented to the kind of grass - roots democratic populism embodied in the Christian base - communities.

Obama's home church in Chicago subscribes to liberation theology, a strain of theology rejected by main - stream Christians pretty much since its inception for the manner in which it mixes in Marxism and often reject core christian beliefs in favor of using the Christian message to serve a social agenda that is not inherent to Chrichristian beliefs in favor of using the Christian message to serve a social agenda that is not inherent to ChriChristian message to serve a social agenda that is not inherent to Christianity.

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).

Liberation theology has tended to place special emphasis on certain portions of the Bible, notably the story of the Exodus, the social criticism of the prophets, the figure of Mary, Jesus» preaching of the kingdom of God, the depiction of the liberating Christian community in Acts, and the struggle against evil in its imperialist and cosmic guise in the Book of Revelation.

This is how someone identifies another Christian now, with scary words: liberation theology, strain of theology, mixes in Marxism, social agenda that is not inherent to Christianity, and the Unitarian sound.

She has formed her own theology as she has learned from a long tradition of Chinese Christian women who struggled «not only for their own liberation, but also for justice in church and society

This is the most important commonality cutting across the various diversities of the Indian Church that would have provided an authentic liberation motif for Indian Christian theology.

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.

«The unmasking of the false universalism of «women's experience» in the so - called third wave of Christian feminism has complicated appeals to the «liberation of women as the goal of feminist theology,» Pauw says.

These final essays are written from the perspective of practical studies, namely, pastoral care, Christian ethics and feminist liberation theology.

As long as the scandal of poverty and oppression exists and as long as there are Christians who live and critically reflect on their faith in the context of the struggle for justice and life, liberation theology will continue to exist».

It is sometimes suggested that liberation theology is little more than Marxism with a Christian face.

After acknowledging an affinity between liberation theology and the emerging theology of Chinese Protestant Christianity, he takes exception to the former's tendency to «absolutize liberation and make it the theme or content of Christian theology.»

Just what has South Africa's religious guardians of political orthodoxy all worked up is revealed in The Road to Damascus» charge that «right - wing Christians» are guilty of «vicious attacks against liberation theology.»

In contrast to South Africa's vocal patrons of liberation theology (who are largely confined to the intellectual class), most evangelical independent and African indigenous churches eschew radical politics and the transformation of the Christian message into a political agenda.

If we use the overpowering rationality of God alone as the clue to resolving the problem of suffering in the world, then, we miss a fundamental element which has always been basic to Christian theology, namely, the recognition that both reason and faith are essential for salvation and liberation.

Recently I assigned a class Gustavo Gutierrez's A Theology of Liberation, a book that to my mind combines at a fairly systematic level many of the qualities I have been speaking about, most notably the insistence on the relation of Christian belief and life style.

Apart from critically assessing liberation theology, Tinder does not engage many contemporary Christian thinkers.

Within the various theologies of liberation movements, the symbolic construction of justice seeks to express the dialectical movement within the function of Christian symbols: justice enables us to name faith, and faith symbols reconceived as justice allow us to envision new spaces of life together.

For example, the field education program, the study of current liberation theologies, and the struggle to keep the school's budget in balance all pose questions of Christian faith and ethics in their relation to urban - institutional structures.

Preamble to Black Theology [Doubleday, 1973] I contend that the theodicy question as revised by liberation theologies will force Christian theism to the position of humanocentric theism, the form of contemporary theism in which the principle of functional ultimacy is most explicit.)

Thus far, liberation theology has been firmly in the first camp and will always derive its energies and its raison d'être from transformative social praxis in a Christian context.

Three emergent theological movements — black theology, feminist theology, and liberation theology from the Third World — challenge traditional ways of doing theology on the grounds that Christian consciousness as it has been» given shape in the modern world is burdened with Western, liberal, male and white perceptions of reality.

Can an Indian Christian theology of liberation emerge from within the four walls of our teaching and training shops, especially the seminaries?

Thanks to the political theologies and theologies of liberation the question of faith and justice has now become a, if not the, central question of Christian theology.

46 In placing this pivotal term at the nucleus of Indian - Christian theology there must be contemplation of the historical resistance - liberation striving of religious and ethnocultural minorities in India.

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1981 — «The Concept of a Theology of Liberation: Must a Christian Theology Today Be So Conceived?»

Continuing our earlier discussion concerning the theological rationale for bringing the Dalit and Adivasi dynamic of resistance - liberation into the realm of Christian theology, another related question arises.

Once considered exotic and fanciful, liberation theologies now have a good chance of becoming the way ahead for theology in the next century — if only they can manage to be true both to the aspirations of the oppressed and to the reality of the beyond in their midst [«Third World Theology, Fourth World Liberation,» The Christian Century, May 19, 197liberation theologies now have a good chance of becoming the way ahead for theology in the next century — if only they can manage to be true both to the aspirations of the oppressed and to the reality of the beyond in their midst [«Third World Theology, Fourth World Liberation,» The Christian Century, May 19, 1976,theology in the next century — if only they can manage to be true both to the aspirations of the oppressed and to the reality of the beyond in their midst [«Third World Theology, Fourth World Liberation,» The Christian Century, May 19, 1976,Theology, Fourth World Liberation,» The Christian Century, May 19, 197Liberation,» The Christian Century, May 19, 1976, P. 477]

Liberation is posited as being synonymous with the fabric of Christian theology.