Sentences with phrase «concern for liberation»

«The mission which is conscious of the Kingdom will be concerned for liberation, not oppression; justice, not exploitation; fullness, not deprivation; freedom, not slavery; health, not disease; life, not death; No matter how the poor may be identified, this mission is for them.»

Mission that is conscious of the kingdom will be concerned for liberation, not oppression; justice, not exploitation; fullness, not deprivation; freedom, not slavery; health, not disease; life, not death.

Not exact matches

The question now is whether there is any point of contact on the side of liberation theology for the concerns of process theologians in areas to which liberation theologians have paid less attention.

There is little doubt that the concern for cultures and religions expresses the middle class social location of most process theologians, whereas the focus on political and economic issues and the concomitant demand for justice express the identification with the poor that is the glory of liberation theology.

Through a series of brief questions at the end of his book, Sigmund invites liberation theologians to seek ways of fusing capitalist market «efficiency» with the «preferential love for the poor,» to consider how private property is not always oppression but may in fact free people from it, to develop liberalism's ideal of «equal treatment under the law,» to nurture the «fragile new democracies» in Latin America, and, finally, to develop «a spirituality of socially concerned democracy, whether capitalist or socialist in its economic form,» rather than «denouncing dependency, imperialism, and capitalist exploitation.»

Meanwhile, liberation theologians have protested that postliberal theology is more concerned with Christian catechesis, formation and liturgy than with the struggle for social justice.

However, the argument must also move in the other direction: a concern for structural change must be rooted in an experience of personal liberation.

Thus in our present situation the hermeneutical problem (how traditional words, concepts and symbols are to be interpreted intelligibly in our cultural present) on the one hand remains the problem for those concerned with the theoretical issues of theology, and on the other the issue of liberation represents the center for those concerned more with the meaning of theology in life and in action.

Not even the opening papal address contained the salvos against liberation theology that the conservatives had hoped for (despite erroneous impressions to the contrary given by the New York Times), and the Puebla documents, though a mixed bag, gave ongoing support to the major concerns of this theology, particularly in the emphasis on the need for the church to make «a preferential option for the poor.

We therefore should share his concern for justice and reconciliation throughout human society and for the liberation of men from every kind of oppression.

This granted, the burning question, asked again and again by Liberation Theology, concerns what image of God we have and what this implies for our life.

Continuing our earlier discussion concerning the theological rationale for bringing the Dalit and Adivasi dynamic of resistance - liberation into the realm of Christian theology, another related question arises.

He exhorted that those who believe in God should join forces with all those who struggle for justice because liberation from bondage is a common concern of humanity irrespective of religion or ideology.

The report deals with the subject: The Kingdom of God and Human Struggles, under five areas of concern: The Kingdom of God and the struggles of people in countries searching for liberation and self - determination; The Kingdom of God and the struggles for human rights; The Kingdom of God in contexts of strong revival of institutional religions; The Kingdom of God in the context of centrally planned economics; and The Kingdom of God in the struggles of countries dominated by consumerism and the growth of big cities.

Robert McAfee Brown, one of the most vigorous defenders of this brand of liberation theology (Theology in a New Key, Westminster, 1978), claims that its major concern is to «see the world in the light of the gospel through the eyes of the oppressed,» using Marxism as the chief instrument for social analysis.

Lastly, I feel that like Joan, we too must be firm and be able to stand up against all forces that are against God's concern for human liberation and justice, even the church if we are to be in obedience to God, for though the church is God's many a times, the churches have and tend to practice things which are against God's idea of church, like possessing wealth.

Florence Fisher organized The ALMA Society (Adoptees Liberation Movement Association) in 1972, Emma May Vilardi created International Soundex Reunion Registry (ISRR) in 1975, Lee Campbell and other birthmothers joined the fight for Open Records forming Concerned United Birthparents (CUB) in 1976, and by the spring of 1979 representatives of 32 organizations from 33 states, Canada and Mexico gathered together in DC to establish the American Adoption Congress (AAC).

However, the provision of liberation is always left for the concerned people to recognize and embrace.

Concerning Violence / Sweden, U.S.A., Denmark, Finland (Director: Göran Hugo Olsson)-- Concerning Violence is based on newly discovered, powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World, accompanied by classic text from The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon.

Projects that can seem self - evidently good to a liberal — such as democracy, peace - making, concern for the environment, the liberation of women, or freedom of speech — can seem evil or even Satanic to a fundamentalist.

While there is no Canadian «free data» program comparable to the Australian and U.S. programs, there is something called the Data Liberation Initiative, managed by Statistics Canada, which actually is concerned with providing post-secondary institutions with cheaper rates and is «a cost effective method for improving data resources» for them.