Sentences with phrase «about liberation theology»

I discovered that these Russian seminarians knew almost nothing about liberation theology and when I tried to explain it to them, they took it to he an oddly establishment kind of reform movement.

Perhaps this book does the most that any text about liberation theology can do: it invites us to consider what it would mean to have that hope — both for the poor and for all of us.

I think that all theology outside of the religious right has a PR problem in the U.S. Glenn Beck's comments about liberation theology — in conjunction with the clips from Jeremiah Wright's sermons — brought liberation theology to the attention of mainstream media.

I'm actually glad about it because it gave liberation theologians an opportunity to share about liberation theology in a more public way.

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?

From Rachel: When you google «Liberation Theology,» the second article to come up after Wikipedia is an article about liberation theology by TV personality Glenn Beck, who describes liberation theology as a «perversion of God.»

Not exact matches

The necessity of this move is suggested by some observations about both university theology and liberation theology type A.

Let us now take a further step and talk about another dimension or kind of liberation theology — we might speak indeed of liberation theology type B, as opposed to the original type A.

The responses of Ogden and Brown to liberation theologies quite properly centre in fresh reflections about the perennial problem of freedom.

We could understand a theology of liberation as a doctrine of liberation, namely, as what the church teaches about liberation.

A theology of liberation is not asking what the church has said and now should say about liberation.

I wanted to feature liberation theology because I hear people reference it now and then, but I really don't know much about it, and I suspect I'm not alone.

But the timing of this question is ironic because process theologian John Cobb just wrote about how process and liberation theology intersect here.

From that, liberation theology concludes that God cares about the oppressed.

Jones: Process theology is inept as a theology of liberation, It works at cross-purposes with liberation theology about 40 percent of the time.

The status of a strictly metaphysical assertion, taken alone, or only in combination with other strictly metaphysical assertions, is a matter about which black theology and most other theologies of liberation have shown little interest, and this is so for the best of reasons.

Broadly conceived, black theology asks not only about the metaphysical status of process theology, but also, and more importantly, can process theology illuminate social - political ethics in a way that contributes favorably to the liberation struggle?

During the 1970s and 80s, many thought that the theology of liberation would strengthen the Catholic Church through the grassroot movement of the CEBs, and that the CEBs, in turn, would raise the consciousness of the popular classes, bringing about serious social change.

And there are many different kinds of theology: historical, systematic, practical, black, liberation — in fact, a «theology of» just about every movement and topic that requires serious thought and...

About the new situation that raises questions about the relevance of liberation theology, Pablo Richard says, «The conditions in the Third World that gave birth to liberation theology have not chaAbout the new situation that raises questions about the relevance of liberation theology, Pablo Richard says, «The conditions in the Third World that gave birth to liberation theology have not chaabout the relevance of liberation theology, Pablo Richard says, «The conditions in the Third World that gave birth to liberation theology have not changed.

While the thesis mentions directly only about the influence of Marx on liberation theology, students of liberation theology have always acknowledged the influence of Bonhoeffer.

For the remainder, such as most of the new independent evangelical churches, their distaste for liberation theology and their understanding of the church's proper role in the public arena derive not from «an ideology of the national security state» but from sincerely held beliefs about theology, politics, and economics.

It must be responsible and open to discussions about praxis as well, and process thinkers have recently shown themselves to be very open to these questions as they have been raised in liberation theology.

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.

She says nothing about the precipitous decline of Niebuhr's influence after the emergence of liberation theology.

is something that brings a new emphasis into Liberation Theology, inasmuch as it makes clear that there is, ultimately, an unbridgeable gap between God and statements about him.

But my claim about the importance of race for theology in America does not depend on one being a black liberation theologian.

One of their first decisions was what to do about some of the statements of newly elected Pope John Paul II, which journalists were interpreting as condemnations of liberation theology.

The Santa Fe Report targets liberation theology as a major challenge to U.S. foreign policy because it refuses to be silent about death or about the possibilities for new life.

Cardinal Angelo Amato explains that in liberation theology the «Messiah is... he who brings about the liberation of the needy today.»

This is the issue: liberation theology seeks to understand why the actual decisions about the course of history are made on grounds other than Christ - centered faith and tries to connect the faith with the actual course of history.

For a more detailed examination of liberation theology, see Jack Nelson - Pallmeyer, The Politics of Compassion (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1987), or Phillip Berryman, Liberation Theology: The Essential Facts about the Revolutionary Movement in Latin America and Beyond (New York, Pantheon Booliberation theology, see Jack Nelson - Pallmeyer, The Politics of Compassion (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1987), or Phillip Berryman, Liberation Theology: The Essential Facts about the Revolutionary Movement in Latin America and Beyond (New York, Pantheon Bookstheology, see Jack Nelson - Pallmeyer, The Politics of Compassion (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1987), or Phillip Berryman, Liberation Theology: The Essential Facts about the Revolutionary Movement in Latin America and Beyond (New York, Pantheon BooLiberation Theology: The Essential Facts about the Revolutionary Movement in Latin America and Beyond (New York, Pantheon BooksTheology: The Essential Facts about the Revolutionary Movement in Latin America and Beyond (New York, Pantheon Books, 1987).

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.»

Previous incidents include her academic paper on black liberation theology that was interpreted by some to endorse a kind of Marxism, a Facebook photo showing her at a party on Halsted Street at the same time as Chicago's Pride Parade, and her suggestions that the college change some of its language about sexuality.

Can it be true that liberation theology is «really» about spirituality?

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

Peter Tatchell, human rights campaigner, talked about Catholic dissent from the Pope's hardline, intolerant opposition to liberation theology, women's rights, gay equality, contraception, fertility treatment, embryonic stem cell research and the Pope's collusion with Holocaust deniers and appeasers.

Information about social inequality and Liberation Theology along with supporting questions.

About Blog I'm a lifelong Lutheran, and although I'm aware of some of the problems with Liberation Theology, it has spoken to me for much of my adolescent and adult life.

About Blog I'm a lifelong Lutheran, and although I'm aware of some of the problems with Liberation Theology, it has spoken to me for much of my adolescent and adult life.

About Blog I'm a lifelong Lutheran, and although I'm aware of some of the problems with Liberation Theology, it has spoken to me for much of my adolescent and adult life.