Sentences with phrase «for liberationist»

A Canadian, Baum is well known for his work on theology and society and his sympathy for a liberationist perspective.

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These communities are both the context of theological reflection and microcosms of the liberationists» vision for Latin America.

A liberationist may conclude that it is important to speak and act for the fetus.

I have selected evangelicals, liberals, liberationists, and process theologians for consideration.

In most cases, liberationist theologies have taken root in situations that call for freedom from existing government and economic structures.

Nothing could be said, for within a liberationist understanding of God's will there is little room for considering how, short of overturning society at large, Christians should respond to particular social problems.

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.

Along the way, she counters the restricted rationalism of analytic philosophy and the utopianism of sundry liberationist proposals for «fixing» the world.

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.

The potential leadership of at least the persuaders among the Christian R&D professionals is problematic, considering the weight of empirical evidence accumulated against liberationist diagnoses and prescriptions for the Third World's woes.

Sigmund, who is strongly critical of liberationists» rejections of capitalism, also takes Novak to task for trusting to «the magic of the market» and for being «no more willing to engage in criticism of capitalism than liberation theologians are of socialism.»

Any criticism of the liberationist program is perilous, for it can quickly put the critic in the uncomfortable position of seeming to favor the oppressor.

It's extremely likely that the only significant, ongoing dissent to sexual liberationist orthodoxy will come from religious people and the institutions they run for the sake of living out their faith.»

The liberationist hermeneutic draws upon Scripture to support the current struggle of the dispossessed for justice and liberty.

But to recognize that precursor would have posed an awkward question for Walzer: Are the liberationist project's flaws merely a matter of means and attitude, or are they also rooted in its conception of human nature, its principles, and its goals?

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 deny that within the Church during these many centuries no liberationist impulse manifested itself, that there was no room for it as «there was no room in the inn» in Bethlehem when Christ was born?

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.

I submit that their concern is not so much with the conservatives» possible manipulation of King's dream as with the difficulties that dream creates for the aspirations of the liberationists, democratic socialists and progressives.

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?

One of the liberationists, Hugo Assmann, admitted this shortcoming, calling for a «transition to democracy»» a movement beyond face - to - face democracy to the public and formal democracy of parties and institutions.

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.

That is, he set a course that would not compromise democracy for the sake of socialism — a position that set him apart from assorted domestic political sectarians and especially from the Marxist - Leninist establishments and ideological Liberationists who, until recently, commanded the rhetoric as well as the policies in Eastern Europe and the Third World.

As the book points out, for example, the «obviously inadequate instantiation» of caritas in medieval Christianity helped to precipitate the Reformation and its leaders» emphasis on doctrine; Reformation - era «authorities» breaches of caritas via confessional coercion created a reservoir of resentment sufficient to spring and sustain the secularizing, antireligious, liberationist ideology pervasive in the modern era down to the present»; and awareness of churches» collusion with European imperial colonial violence is linked to the steep decline in European churchgoing since World War II.

Given this situation, the question here will be exclusively that of whether contemporary Wesleyan liberationists can claim support from Wesley for the new position they have adopted.

The graphic artists of Taller saw their artwork as an instrument for promoting liberationist ideals and redressing injustice.