Sentences with phrase «demand for liberation»

One dramatic forum has emerged in the increasing demand for liberation politically throughout the world.

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The Japanese Red Army, a communist militant group which had close ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in which Carlos was the head of «special operations», was demanding that French authorities free one of its members who had been arrested at Paris Orly airport two months early.

I am glad that blacks and women and Latin Americans have, throughout the decade been demanding that theology be so formulated as to call for and advance human liberation.

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.

In today's consumer - oriented, capitalistic culture, where people are used, abused and disposed of like nonreturnable soft - drink cans, where «liberation» has been invoked to justify selfishness, it may be that the time has come for the church to say again what it has always believed — that there is no way for individuals to «flourish» without the kind of communion and community and the permanent, deep, risky commitment that true Christian love demands — qualities that are perhaps best experienced in the yoking of a man and a woman in marriage.

He adds that the sign character and servant role of the church demand that in the face of the oppressive situation of the people, the church must «organize itself into peoples» movement for liberation» cutting across the boundaries of religion, caste and culture; and here transparency of the church requires that we have to conceive of an open church with flexible structures, boundaries, rules and rituals making Christian identity vulnerable.

The explicit reference to Jesus Christ becomes in this view gratuitous in the original sense of the word — something which is not demanded by or needed for the struggle [of socioeconomic liberation]... The reference to Jesus Christ does not add an «extra» to the historical struggle but is totally and without rest identified with it.

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.

And in the twentieth century, movements pressing for colonial liberation and female emancipation furthered the demand for equal legal protection, building campaigns for human rights on the back of the promise of Magna Carta.

In 2016 and 2017, the opposition was able to mobilise millions of citizens demanding free and fair elections, the liberation of political prisoners and the opening of a humanitarian channel for Venezuela.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito will march in Manhattan on Saturday to demand the liberation of Oscar López Rivera, a Puerto Rican nationalist currently held in federal prison for conspiracy.

They claim to represent The Democratic Movement for the Liberation of Arabistan, and vow to kill one of the 25 hostages unless their demands are met.

If Boltanski and Chiapello's contention is right — that the challenge to bourgeois security posed by the «artistic» demands of the»60s for radical liberation and authenticity has proved uniquely compatible with a new phase of capitalism, a capitalism through which individuals are embedded within networks that turn these very freedoms into competitive mechanisms — then in a very real way, every creative gesture provides new opportunities for future exploitation.