Sentences with phrase «by liberationists»

Those who do not want to deal with the issues raised by liberationists and women are trying to close the door upon them.

Not exact matches

Even Sullivan's chapter on «The Liberationists» does not include those we have come to associate with that term (the strident gay - rights activists or flamboyant gay liberationists) but focuses instead on a ragtag group of theoreticians influenced by FrenLiberationists» does not include those we have come to associate with that term (the strident gay - rights activists or flamboyant gay liberationists) but focuses instead on a ragtag group of theoreticians influenced by Frenliberationists) but focuses instead on a ragtag group of theoreticians influenced by French philosophy.

As everywhere else in liberal Protestantism, its central headquarters is staffed by modish theological bureaucrats in thrall to the latest liberationist, feminist, and multiculturalist whims.

♦ We came across this interview by North American liberationist Jim Wallis with Latin American liberationist Jon Sobrino.

Indeed, the animal rights movement's fury against the speciesist use of animals» a necessary element for human flourishing, particularly in medical research» has increased to the point that scientists are now under threat of death by the most radical liberationists for daring to experiment on rats or monkeys to find cures for cancer and other human afflictions.

First, as the title of a key chapter puts it, the American example shows that religion can «Make Use of Democratic Instincts» in a manner mutually beneficial to itself and democracy; second, sustainable democracy needs religion, which means we can expect democratic peoples to remain attached to its continuance or at least potentially receptive to its revival (cf. II, 2.17, # s 17 - 20); third, democratic times, because they are enlightened times, tend to be ones of increasing doubts about religion; fourth, the relevant religion for America and Europe, Christianity, will be tugged against and perhaps eroded by powerful and ongoing democratic currents toward liberationist and materialist mores; and fifth, religion's authority in democratic society will always rest upon common opinion.

She says it was simply hatched by myopic intellegentia and liberationists, as if they alone have the power to alter human behavior.

Presumably he means by this that it is for the Greens to think through the relation of the contributions of deep ecology to those of social, political, and economic analysis, feminists, and liberationists.

Would you not concede to the thesis that effective liberationist impulses, as different from those which sought to mitigate the plight of the poverty - stricken and outcastes were stirred and given an institutional framework by Marxist movement especially in Kerala which has the largest Christian population in the country?

Christ opening himself up to the «least of these» and identifying with them was, for many liberationists, the act of self - sacrifice that fulfilled the historical Jesus's indwelling by God the Father.

It should be pointed out, though, that nothing in the social - constructivist position legitimates the denial of rights... Assertive gay liberationists have argued that it may be strategically wiser to concede the possibility that a few students might be influenced to become gay by having an openly gay teacher as a role model, and to say, «So what?»

Coming as he does from a region where the Church's validity among the poor has been damaged by the competition between the traditional hierarchy and the less - than - orthodox liberationists, the Pope's concern is understandable.

Instead of being guided only by the needs of a particular oppressed group a liberationist may seek to help the church as a whole find the appropriate response to the recognition of its role in that oppression.

If the liberationist «analysis» of poverty and oppression in Latin America can no longer be credited, what political hope for the future has been bequeathed to the poor by liberation theology?

The Reformation and Liberation Theology: Insights for the Challenge of Today by Richard Shaull Westminster, 144 pages, $ 11.95 A veteran liberationist of Princeton Theological Seminary contends that the sundry Protestant reformations demand and make possible a radically new social order.

By all reports, pessimism and near - despair grip liberationists today, who see on the horizon very little indeed that offers hope of a better life to the poor of Latin America.

Black liberationist theology was reinforced on its main points by that of Latin America.

By temperament Wesley was far more paternalistic than liberationist.

Jesus in Global Contexts by Priscilla Pope - Levison and John R. Levison Westminster / John Knox Press, 232 pages, $ 17.99 A husband and wife team offers a once - over-lightly survey of liberationists, feminists, and others who «do Christology» by construing Jesus according to cultural context.

During the 1986 - 87, Christianity and Crisis and The Christian Century have carried articles and letters by Michael Novak and Robert McAfee Brown debating the respective neo-conservative and liberationist adaptations of Niebuhr's thought.