These final essays are written from the perspective of practical studies, namely, pastoral care, Christian ethics and
feminist liberation theology.
program in
feminist liberation theology and ministry.
Not exact matches
Similarly, a black
theology of
liberation or a
feminist theology of
liberation may, like the university
theology its proponents criticize, be little more than ideological expressions of autonomous political movements that owe no fundamental allegiance to the Christian vision.
Black
theology,
feminist theology, and
liberation theology all arise out of the keen and accurate analysis of injustices.
But it has taken the challenge of black
theology,
feminist theology, and
liberation theology to shake us out of these habits of mind.
The presence of other divergences too (David Moss's luminous piece on friendship stands very well alone), the dispersal of the group on both sides of the Atlantic, and the fact that some members are already deep into other conversations all suggest that as a movement it will (at least in Britain) either fragment or at best fare like
feminist,
liberation and nonrealist
theologies, and have its main influence as a point of reference and interrogation.
Liberation theology found some of its first expressions in Latin America and among African Americans, but now includes a range of expressions, including
feminist and womanist
theology.
At first glance it is hard to imagine how any modern
feminist committed to the
liberation of the community of women and men in the church can find trinitarian
theology helpful.
Her more recent interests are in the areas of Latin American
liberation theologies and
feminist theologies.
In the past few decades
liberation,
feminist and Asian
theologies have been instrumental in reaffirming the reality that culture is specific to particular groups or regions.
«The unmasking of the false universalism of «women's experience» in the so - called third wave of Christian feminism has complicated appeals to the «
liberation of women as the goal of
feminist theology,» Pauw says.
As it seeks
liberation from this dimension of its past, as it encounters
feminist theology, the new consciousness of women, blacks, third world peoples, and their suppressed traditions, post-Holocaust Judaism as well as other religions, Christianity is transformed, becomes more authentically relational and creative, richer, more inclusive, less trivial in its harmony.
Hence the rise of
liberation (black,
feminist, Third World), political, ecological, public, process, peace and holocaust
theologies.
As such, she adds, it «is a crucial issue for a metaphorical
theology» against conservatives «who absolutize Scripture, refusing to admit its metaphorical quality,» and against «
liberation theologies, especially radical
feminist theologies» which «relativize Scripture to the point of undercutting the relevance of its basic images.»
In reviewing how her mind has changed from a Barthian position in the 1950's through the
feminist and
liberation theology emphases to a more wholistic and cosmic focus, Sallie McFague has experienced a deconstruction of the central symbol of God as patriarchal, hierarchical and militaristic, and a reconstruction of God as creator and sustainer of everything in his universe.
Justice as a key to the symbolic life of Christianity is represented not only in
feminist theology but also in African — American, Latin American and other forms of
liberation theology.
An exploration of the emergence of mujerista
theology — which brings together elements of
feminist theology, Latin American
liberation theology and cultural
theology.
Mujerista
theology brings together elements of
feminist theology, Latin American
liberation theology and cultural
theology, three perspectives which critique and challenge each other, giving birth to new elements, a new reality, a new whole.
I think there has been a minority report in the West — St. Patrick, St. Francis, Duns Scotus, the Anabaptists,
liberation theology, black
theology,
feminist theology, eco-
theology, postcolonial
theology - and they're providing alternatives to the dominant narrative that I think is inherently dangerous.
Three emergent theological movements — black
theology,
feminist theology, and
liberation theology from the Third World — challenge traditional ways of doing
theology on the grounds that Christian consciousness as it has been» given shape in the modern world is burdened with Western, liberal, male and white perceptions of reality.
One could hardly imagine a progressive divinity school without a significant interpreter of
feminist and Latin American
liberation theology.
Second,
feminist theology in a global perspective can recognize the interrelatedness of all
liberation theologies.
The emergence of
theologies of
liberation — whether black,
feminist or Latin American — is probably the most significant theological development of recent years.
The three most important were Black
theology and
feminist theology, arising in the United States itself, and Latin American
liberation theology.
Start some study groups specifically on Bible study from the
feminist viewpoint, on
feminist theology, and on human
liberation.
And other theological voices (black
liberation,
feminist, Islamic, Asian, Hispanic, African, Jewish, and Western white male traditional) will provide insights relevant for the construction of the God - content of womanist
theology.
The two most important expressions of
liberation theology to emerge from the American experience in the late 1960s are black
theology and
feminist theology.
This insight has become increasingly valuable to me, and it plays an important part in Christian mysticism as well as in
feminist and
liberation theologies.