Sentences with phrase «between liberation theology»

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.»

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.»

Not exact matches

Let me then attempt to distinguish between two types of liberation theology, and between both types of liberation theology and what I would call «university theology.»

The points of contact between process thought and liberation theology.

One point of contact between process theology and liberation theology depends on repentance on the part of process theologians.

The distinction between the emphases that have been characteristic of liberation theology and process theology respectively can be indicated with the words «interests» and «perspectives.»

Some of the insights provided by the first phase of liberation theology seem too important to let slip between the cracks — for instance, the centrality of the category «the poor» for biblical interpretation; the awareness of structural, not just individual, evil; the use of the social sciences as dialogue partner for theological discourse; and the need to apply a hermeneutic of suspicion to theology itself.

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

What, then, of the possible lines of connection between Niebuhr's thought and the very «political» liberation theology of the 1980s?

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We are engaged in a self - conscious effort to enlarge the dialogue between process theology and liberation theology.

Burleigh reveals an unhealthy, symbiotic relationship between Irish terrorism and certain elements of the Catholic Church (mirroring the left - wing clergy's indulgence of «liberation theology» in Latin America).

The main thrust of his attack is to propose a distinction between «true» liberation theology (which, of course, the church has always affirmed), and «false» or «errant» liberation theology (which, of course, the church in the interests of truth must denounce).

John Cobb's Process Theology as Political Theology and Delwin Brown's To Set at Liberty indicate the fruitfulness of this contextualization in the emerging dialogue between process and political or liberation theologies.

Nor do such claims seek an a priori and abstract conjunction between «liberation» and «theology,» as if all «liberation» is «of its very essence» theological, or all «theology» is «of its very essence» liberative.

It is here that we best discover the difference between orthopraxis in Panikkar and in the Theology of Liberation: In Panikkar, it is primarily directed towards the experience of the Cosmotheandric Reality and not towards action in the world.

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.

Professor Paul E. Sigmund of Princeton University, has recently pointed out (in his Liberation Theology at the Crossroads, 1990) that liberation theology faces another basic choice; it must choose between revolution and Liberation Theology at the Crossroads, 1990) that liberation theology faces another basic choice; it must choose between revolution and deTheology at the Crossroads, 1990) that liberation theology faces another basic choice; it must choose between revolution and liberation theology faces another basic choice; it must choose between revolution and detheology faces another basic choice; it must choose between revolution and democracy.

My task is to proceed from a pastoral psychology perspective and to imply a working connection between black liberation and process theologies when black people's experience of oppression is the focus.

We can then consider the differences between the social gospel and liberation theology to pursue the relation of Wesley to the current scene.

His steady movement into political theology is explicit in his writings of the past few years.5 Schubert Ogden and Delwin Brown are likewise deeply involved with issues of liberation theology.6 Ogden probes the distinction between witness and theology, inquiring into the theology of freedom which undergirds and springs from the witness to liberation.