Sentences with phrase «among liberation theologians»

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But liberation theologians are among those who have most effectively warned us against such a view.

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.

In this regard, liberation theologians have understood Jesus well, for they experienced the setting of his sayings as they themselves lived among the poor and oppressed of South America.

In dialectically articulating our solidarity with the victims of injustice, liberation theologians provide the theological dimensions of a much larger contemporary n7lOvement among scientists, technologists and scholars.

Even though black theologians were among the earliest exponents of liberation theology, we are often excluded when panels and conferences are held on the subject.

But one still looks in vain among the writings of liberation theologians to find discussions of the indispensable institutions of democratic (republican) government, such as guarantees of rights of minorities against the tyranny of the majority or divisions of responsibilities and functions that avoid dangerous concentrations of power.

Among the far - reaching effects of the great antisocialist revolutions of 1989 is one that has so far not received a proper measure of attention, and that is their impact on Latin American liberation theology At least one liberation theologian, observing the collapse of the socialist dream in Eastern Europe, publicly expressed fear that the two estranged parts of «the North,» East and West, would now embrace each other heartily and forget the South.

In his tribute to Freire following the latter's death in 1997, McLaren stated that Freire supported «a radical politics of historical struggle» and «acquired a mythic stature among progressive educators, social workers, and theologians» for «fomenting dedication to the ways that education can serve as a vehicle for... - a politics of liberation.»»