Sentences with phrase «marxist liberation theology»

Marxist liberation theology would have us find liberation theology in antiquity.

Marxist Liberation theology is popular among Catholics in poor nations and especially in Latin America where the Pope comes from.

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.

One may justly suspect that the fascination of some espousers of liberation theology for Marxist analysis may also conceal a tendency to ideology that unfortunately vitiates efforts to unmask competing capitalist ideology.

He claims there has been «a movement away from Marxist reductionism to communitarian participatory radicalism in the development of liberation theology over the past twenty years.»

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.

Generalization is dangerous here too, but it is safe to say that liberation theology is characterized by an emphasis on the experience of oppression and a Marxist - inspired social analysis that divides society into oppressor and oppressed.

J. Emmette Weir, for example, has cited Juan Luis Segundo's criticism of the social ineffectiveness of the Marxist concept of religion («The Bible and Marx», Scottish Journal of Theology, August 1982) and has also noted that current exponents of liberation theology have shifted away from dependence on Marx -(«Liberation Theology Comes of Age,» Expository Times, OctobeTheology, August 1982) and has also noted that current exponents of liberation theology have shifted away from dependence on Marx -(«Liberation Theology Comes of Age,» Expository Times, Octoliberation theology have shifted away from dependence on Marx -(«Liberation Theology Comes of Age,» Expository Times, Octobetheology have shifted away from dependence on Marx -(«Liberation Theology Comes of Age,» Expository Times, OctoLiberation Theology Comes of Age,» Expository Times, OctobeTheology Comes of Age,» Expository Times, October 1986).

Today, Weigel argues that the same impulse fuels Marxist totalitarianism and the sacralization of politics of «theologies of liberation.»

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.

By analyzing the Marxist system, he offered the philosophical basis for his cautionary stance toward liberation theology - a position prefigured in his discussion of alienation in Anthropology in 7heological Perspective (Westminster, 1985).

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.

That is praxiology theology, a Marxist perspective (liberation theology in S. America).

Liberation theology to a large extent agrees with Marxist analysis in its identification with the oppressed in the struggle against the oppressor.

Philosophically, liberation theologies are sometimes portrayed as more or less naive popular movements drawing upon now outdated 19th century notions of divergent vintages: Marxist (Third World), social gospel (First World), suffragette (Feminist), black nationalism (Black), agrarian pastoralism (Environmentalist), or romantic pacifism (Nuclear Pacifist).

Even in his 1979 speech repudiating the Marxist political - theological matrix of liberation theology, Pope John Paul II reminded the bishops of Latin America that «internal and international peace will be assured only when a social and economic system based on justice takes effect».

Castro for his part clearly recognized the political gain in an alliance between liberation theology and Marxist revolution: «From a strictly political point of view» and I think I know something about politics» I believe that it is possible for Christians to be Marxists as well, and to work with Marxist Communists to transform the world.»

More generally, the loss of prestige suffered by international socialism after Tiananmen Square, and even more after the «velvet revolution» against socialist oppression in Eastern Europe, brought the «Marxist analysis» on which liberation theology so heavily depended into universal disrepute.

The focus of the discussion was the use of social sciences in theology, the rereading of the Bible from the perspective of the poor, the Christian communities in the struggle of liberation and the assumption of some elements of critical and Marxist analysis for a better and deeper understanding of the conflictual reality of the continent.

Liberation theology, by contrast, was about «praxis»» the Marxist term for the revolutionary project of removing the oppression of the poor.

The fight - back led by Blessed John Paul II and Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger against the doctrinal heresies and Marxist analysis underlying liberation theology had only just begun...

Further, Gutiérrez implies — notably in his A Theology of Liberation (Orbis, 1973)-- that Christians legitimately can and indeed should participate with Marxists in the violence of social change in order to liberate Latin America.

Not surprising from someone who grew up with and endorsed the Marxist - inspired liberation theology of Latin American.