Sentences with phrase «by liberation theologians»

He was also a Catholic convert and largely as a result of his influence I became interested in theology (although Hutch became a conservative Catholic in his later years while I ventured into the chilly hinterlands of the Jesuit mind to explore abstruse books deemed by the guardians of the faith as heretical, works by liberation theologians and apostates).

This is chiefly because in the latter part of the twentieth century, and led by liberation theologians, we have come to view science sociologically.

It appears that reproductive self - determination would go a long way toward real liberation (especially given the problems of overpopulation in the third world), but this issue has not been addressed by the liberation theologians.»

Likewise, process thinkers, if they are to have any real impact on the contemporary scene, must come to grips with the urgent social justice issues raised by liberation theologians.

Process thinkers must come to grips with the urgent social justice issues raised by liberation theologians.

But Lakeland would see Morris's interpretation of Whitehead as illustrating the charge by liberation theologians that Whitehead and process thought in general are counterrevolutionary instruments serving the status quo.

The theology of the fourth church is, of course, being formulated by the liberation theologians of the southern continent — José Míguez Bonino, Juan Segundo.

Novak leaves the reader with the impression that Latin America's devastating poverty is the result of the «misbegotten form of social analysis» employed by the liberation theologians.

Not exact matches

His 1948 book was indeed moderate by comparison with the enthusiastic Marxism of the liberation theologians who were to come.

Collaborative and complementary work by process theologians and liberation theologians can contribute to the realization of South American Indian social justice.

Similarly, the quite different issues raised by feminists properly have a priority for us that they do not yet have for most liberation theologians.

It may be even more difficult for liberation theologians to admit that there are values in the perspective of the oppressor when they see so clearly the marks of interest in the structures of society the oppressor has organized and in the ideology by which these are justified.

Although Brown does not uncritically agree with everything said by theologians of liberation, he presents his form of process theology more as a supplementation and conceptual grounding of their insights than as expressing a different understanding of the theological task.

This failure can be illustrated with the same example, for although Marxists on the whole have been less sexist in their attitudes than have psychoanalysts, they appear only a little less deficient when viewed in the light of contemporary feminist consciousness.37 Or, again, use of Marxist sociology by Latin American theologians of liberation has done little to free them from implicit anti-Judaism in their theological formulations.

Thus, there is a key subtext in Sigmund's book, a kind of subliminal message to be received by North American readers already caught up in celebrating perestroika: «Come now, liberation theologians, announce this day whom you shall serve, the revolution of old or the democracies that are growing in this bright new day.»

Whether it be conflict from his childhood when he was raised in Muslim household, or from his time in Hawaii when his Communist mentor likely eschewed any religion, or during college bringing him closer to a community likely agnostic at best, atheist perhaps, followed by years in which he sat listening to Black Liberation Theologian Wright, his relationship with Christianity's basic tenet is uneasy to say the least.

The interpretation developed in the base Christian communities was paralleled by the work of theologians and biblical scholars, who articulated the principles of liberation hermeneutics in a series of important studies (see, especially Leonardo Boff and Clodovis Boff, Introducing Liberation Theology, and J. Severino Croatto, Biblical Hermeneutics: Toward a Theory of Reading in the Production ofliberation hermeneutics in a series of important studies (see, especially Leonardo Boff and Clodovis Boff, Introducing Liberation Theology, and J. Severino Croatto, Biblical Hermeneutics: Toward a Theory of Reading in the Production ofLiberation Theology, and J. Severino Croatto, Biblical Hermeneutics: Toward a Theory of Reading in the Production of Meaning).

It has been raised again more recently in the face of the cultural challenges to dominant western theological formulations by liberation, feminist and Asian theologians.

As I got older I responded to these questions out of a liberation faith informed by my own religious and social action experience and by the thought of various liberal, neo-orthodox and liberation theologians.

Hence liberation theologians should take seriously the metaphysical framework for a praxis - oriented theology implicitly offered to them by process theology.

At the same time, he directed some critical comments to the liberation theologians, thereby underscoring some of the points made earlier in the conference by Schubert Ogden.

Recognizing the need for liberation from inward and outward sources of oppression, it also proposes a liberating vision free from the suffocating constraints of the mechanistic, deterministic, substantialist view of reality, it is all the more remarkable in having been written by two professional theologians, although one of them, to be sure, is a professional biologist.

Positively speaking, in the Theology of Liberation becomes manifest «the very tense transition from a culturally more or less homogeneous, and in this sense monocentric, church of the West, towards a world church which has many cultural roots and is, thus, polycentric», as formulated by Johann Baptist Metz.11 It is fairly plain that Boff has become, internationally, the most published and read theologian from Latin America.

To the liberation theologian, deeply influenced by a hermeneutics of suspicion, knowledge can not equal virtue, unless that knowledge be a product of the praxis of solidarity with the oppressed.

He was a liberation theologian before the phrase was coined by African - American and Latin American religious thinkers in the late Sixties and early Seventies.

Again, in 1984, when Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, with the pope's approval, issued his critique of liberation theology, most Latin American theologians sidestepped it by saying that what Ratzinger was describing was not liberation theology but a caricature, and hence his criticisms did not apply to them or their colleagues.

I think James Cone is right when he says: «Theologians of the Christian Church have not interpreted Christian ethics as an act for the liberation of the oppressed because their views of divine revelation were defined by philosophy and other cultural values rather than by the biblical theme of God as the liberator of the oppressed.»

The EATWOT, a fellowship of theologians of the Third World who are heavily influenced by the liberation theology of Latin America, met in Delhi in 1981.

Writing from the perspective of Minjung theology — a school of liberation theology specifically centered on the oppressed peoples of Korea — Noh reports inductively on the sorts of oppression that often arise from, or are validated by, what the Minjung theologians call division theologies.

In view of the approaches taken by white male theologians, Roman Catholics as well as Protestants, liberation theology in the U.S. is unfortunately forced to develop a model all its own, painful though it is to go it alone.

Quite a number of white male theologians, while not buying into the more secular demands of liberation, still want to retain the liberal starting point of theology developed by Friedrich Schleiermacher as they seek to tie into the liberation process.

Recently conflicts have arisen as some liberal theologians have sought to abort the liberation theology effort (cf. «Protestant Liberalism Reaffirmed,» by Deane William Ferm, The Christian Century, April 28, 1976, p. 411).

For two decades, liberation theologians blamed Latin American misery on «capitalist methods» such as markets, private property, and profits, and they looked for economic salvation by way of a «socialist» strategy of «basic needs.»

The liberation theologians also vary in the degree of their economic precision, though a number of their leaders have been substantially influenced by variants of Marxism.

Hence, part of the task of white process theologians is to complement the work of Black (and other liberation) theologies by engaging in theory - critique and proposing alternative directions for global economic systems.

Anderes Osterlied is a song written by Swiss liberation theologian Kurt Marti in 1970.