Sentences with phrase «against oppression in»

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Dr. Smith looks at process thought and black liberation from a pastoral psychology perspective and black people's experience of oppression: The struggle against oppression in black people's experience is a constant struggle against external forces as manifested in economic, social, and political exploitation.

The struggle against oppression in black people's experience is twofold.

I would suggest no — not at all and that the bible taken in its entirety can be understood to come against oppression in whatever form it takes.

Not exact matches

He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for his campaigns against oppression and genocide.

In his first - century context, Jesus engaged in active, non-violent, political resistance against that oppression, and he died on a Roman cross because of iIn his first - century context, Jesus engaged in active, non-violent, political resistance against that oppression, and he died on a Roman cross because of iin active, non-violent, political resistance against that oppression, and he died on a Roman cross because of it.

A sports trainer and cyclist turned humanitarian, Galpin wanted to get to the bottom of what permits widespread oppression against women — especially those in Afghanistan.

At the same time, the NCC calls for the unification of North and South Korea, without reference to the oppression, including religious oppression, in the North, and condemns sanctions against Cuba, which it blames for the economic disappointments of Fidel's revolution.

In fact, the oppression of some Christian governments against rival sects of Christians is the entire reason our founding fathers built our government to be secular, with no authority on religious matters, with no voice over the religion of its citizens, and guaranteed to all the freedom to worship, or not, as their conscious dictates.

«This is a liberating work of the Spirit, who liberates the oppressed from their oppression, and liberates the oppressors from their oppressing, leading all to a new relationship of equality and freedom, in which each person is fully able to be who they were created to be without having to define themselves over and against others.

The President has faced criticism in recent months for acknowledging that American history, and indeed Christian history, includes racism, violence, injustice, and oppression — particularly against minority and indigenous people — a reality some would rather sweep under the rug.

Milton's Areopagitica, published as a letter to Parliament in 1644, in the midst of the English Civil War, was an impassioned case against censorship and the oppression of thought.

«It is of great importance in a republic, not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part.

In the past, an international body like the WJC was clearly necessary to coordinate Jewish efforts in, say, the campaign against the oppression of Jews in the Soviet UnioIn the past, an international body like the WJC was clearly necessary to coordinate Jewish efforts in, say, the campaign against the oppression of Jews in the Soviet Unioin, say, the campaign against the oppression of Jews in the Soviet Unioin the Soviet Union.

In fact, they are the ones ascribing to an ideology — merely the most recent of many in human history — that attempts to rationalize discrimination and oppression against some of us based on subjective criteria, this time with victims the least able to defend themselveIn fact, they are the ones ascribing to an ideology — merely the most recent of many in human history — that attempts to rationalize discrimination and oppression against some of us based on subjective criteria, this time with victims the least able to defend themselvein human history — that attempts to rationalize discrimination and oppression against some of us based on subjective criteria, this time with victims the least able to defend themselves.

Nevertheless, process theology can never adopt this praxis model for theology without qualification.35 Political theologians are right to warn Christians against the temptation to be drawn into abstract thought for its own sake in a world characterized by starvation and oppression, and thought that lacks relevance to the salvation of the whole world is a luxury the world can not afford.

When the author is not sniggering over his campy double entendres, he indulges in juvenile rage against religion's alleged oppression of homosexuals.

So we buy fancy cars and travel first class and build mansions for ourselves and furnish them with luxuries to satisfy our whims while our neighbors on this planet live in shacks and struggle against oppression and watch their children die young from lack of food and medical care.

The issue is to see how shalom is tied into the fight against drug addiction, carnage on our highways due to alcoholism, ecology, commercial sex, oppression of women, racism and the whole range of evils that fills our news on the airwaves and in print.

«I think God is in favor of liberty and justice and He is against oppression, he told the troops, comparing the contra struggle to the American Revolution.

But the forces of change are gathering steadily, and they seek the help of friends in the U.S. in their struggle against governmental and corporate policies that prop up the present structures of oppression.

He reminds us that the deepest presumption in Christian thought is not against violence, but in favor of protection of the weak and the innocent from unjust attack and oppression.

The current furor, she told me in a recent e-mail, «distracts from real issues of class injustice, racial oppression, and continued discrimination and violence against women, Muslim and non-Muslim.»

A political decision, namely, against a state which as a totalitarian state can not recognize any task, proclamation and order other than its own, nor acknowledge any other God than itself, and which therefore in proportion to its development had of necessity to undertake the oppression of the Christian church and the suppression of all human right and freedom.

The church's prophetic word must be heard in the public sector, searing in judgment against those actions, both individual and systemic, which continue patterns of oppression based on strength or race or sex or tradition.

It must be remembered however that African - American denominations are not «protestant» in the sense of having been born in protest to alleged Catholic abuses; instead, African - American denominations are protestant in the very different sense of having been born in protest against oppression by Euro - American protestant denominations.

In both society and church, the need to fight against obscurantism, mystification and outright oppression is as clear now as it was in the 18th centurIn both society and church, the need to fight against obscurantism, mystification and outright oppression is as clear now as it was in the 18th centurin the 18th century.

He could have added also that some radical Christians, such as those who supported the World Council of Churches» Anti-Racism program have been vocal in campaigning against structural oppression and racism.

They've grown wary of many of the stupider rules of the church and the oppression against women that has always existed, in most religions but overwhelmingly so in the Catholic church.

This refuge once known will produce reaction on the happiness even of those who remain there, by warning their task - masters that when the evils of Egyptian oppression became heavier than those of the abandonment of country, another Canaan is open where their subjects will be received as brothers and secured against like oppression by a participation in the right of self - government.

Not remembered as the greatest 200m final in Olympic memory (that accolade probably goes to Michael Johnson and his world record time of 19.32 at the Atlanta Games or Usain Bolt at 2016 Rio Olympics), this moment would be remembered for the events after the race: three athletes» protest against the violence, subjugation and oppression of racial injustice.

In a recent discussion on «impunity» against the former corrupt political regime in Argentina, individual after individual present spoke out in shame against their silence in the face of oppression — each one felt that they had succumbed to the fear of repression, maybe of the possibility of «disappearance» — but now they recognized that their silence had sanctioned so much of the violencIn a recent discussion on «impunity» against the former corrupt political regime in Argentina, individual after individual present spoke out in shame against their silence in the face of oppression — each one felt that they had succumbed to the fear of repression, maybe of the possibility of «disappearance» — but now they recognized that their silence had sanctioned so much of the violencin Argentina, individual after individual present spoke out in shame against their silence in the face of oppression — each one felt that they had succumbed to the fear of repression, maybe of the possibility of «disappearance» — but now they recognized that their silence had sanctioned so much of the violencin shame against their silence in the face of oppression — each one felt that they had succumbed to the fear of repression, maybe of the possibility of «disappearance» — but now they recognized that their silence had sanctioned so much of the violencin the face of oppression — each one felt that they had succumbed to the fear of repression, maybe of the possibility of «disappearance» — but now they recognized that their silence had sanctioned so much of the violence.

But he who healed the sick, who denounced in scathing language injustice and oppression, who drove the money changers from the temple, certainly did not mean that his followers should do nothing and say nothing against wrong.

He sides against those so enervated by tranquil and sedentary occupations they whine incessantly with the most minimal techno - breakdown and find themselves so locked up in themselves and their screens that they think of marriage and parenthood as forms of oppression.

And a republican form of government makes it less likely that factional interests — that is, those groups that defend substantively wrongful and improper public policies — will be able to exercise their plans of oppression against the legitimate rights or interests of the community in general and the individual in particular.

In the Exodus tradition it becomes clear that God's presence in history entails an implacable opposition to oppression and injustice — forces that work toward chaos and against God's shaloIn the Exodus tradition it becomes clear that God's presence in history entails an implacable opposition to oppression and injustice — forces that work toward chaos and against God's shaloin history entails an implacable opposition to oppression and injustice — forces that work toward chaos and against God's shalom.

Salvation works in the struggle for economic justice against the exploitation of people by people; in the struggle for human dignity against the political oppression of human beings; in the struggle for solidarity against the alienation of person from person; and in the struggle of hope against despair in personal life.

But Spong's rage against «literalists,» whose belief in the virgin birth and whose honor of Mary have apparently been responsible for every oppression against women in Western civilization, demands a conspiracy of more sinister and titillating character.

The story of Islam in the Soviet Union is the story of four hundred years of struggle against Russian tyranny and oppression, a resistance which has been as tenacious as the oppression has been merciless.

Too often, in order to fight against the power - hungry and destructive spirit of oppression that governs many nations and corporations, the church has adopted the very same ideologies and methods that are used by the organization we fight against.

The clergy can play a leading role in the struggle against oppression.

He fought against the oppression of the king and the ruling class in favor of the minority and helpless Christians.

In many cases it is the flip side of the oppression feminists fight against.

«A consistent stream of virulent and inflammatory statements by political and religious leaders and an increase in harassment and imprisonment of, and physical attacks against, these groups has led to a renewal of the kind of oppression seen in the years immediately following the Iranian revolution,» the report says.

Among them are longstanding advocates of gay causes, habitual ranters against Rome's putative oppression, and those who go far beyond respectful dissent in publicly declaring that authoritative teachings of the Church are simply false.

He wanted to participate fully in the national struggle as a dedicated son of the German soil in protesting against Hitler's policies and oppression.

for especially in our present - day context, in order to stand up against injustice, oppression and so on, one has to be prepared to be a living martyr, working for and with the people for the upliftment and betterment against all evil forces.

Ricochet member and pomocon friend Flagg Taylor is over in the Czech Republic again, and sending home dissidents» reports of what it was like to hear a U.S. president to speak openly against the communist oppression they lived under....

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.

Consciousness - raising in racial and women's groups continues to emphasize the experiential aspect of oppression and the struggle against it.