Sentences with phrase «in liberation struggles»

Each painting is at once a contemporary portrait, an exploration of art history and an evocation of a historic female commander / royal figurehead from Africa or its Diasporas, celebrated for their place in liberation struggles.

The series Queens of the Undead (in PS1), from which the exhibition takes its title, comprises six works each dedicated to the life of an historic female figure from Africa or its diasporas, celebrated for their place in liberation struggles.

Each painting in the series, entitled «Queens of the Undead», depicts a historic female commander or royal figurehead from Africa or its Diasporas, celebrated for their place in liberation struggles.

If no other countries in Africa are friends of Nigeria, the Southern African countries of Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa should be our very best friends because of our active participation in their liberation struggles.

It is through the incarnation that we discover how we are to become co-laborers in the liberation struggle.

But what about God's relation to the suffering in the liberation struggle of the actual world?

In any liberation struggle, especially when we are up against the entrenched force, certain eruptions of violence are inevitable.

In order to serve the poor in their liberation struggle, it is necessary for theology to have included in its methodology the critical component of social analysis.

(When this possibility was mentioned to Gustavo Gutiérrez, one of Boff's compañeros in the liberation struggle, he replied, «Yes!

Walker's womanist reality begins with mothers relating to their children and is characterized by black women (not necessarily bearers of children) nurturing great numbers of black people in the liberation struggle (e.g., Harriet Tubman).

Not exact matches

As such, Walker's central challenge to process thought becomes his own theological struggle for coherence in a metaphysical scheme that denies what he affirms as fundamental to a black liberation theologian, i.e., that the most inclusive concept of God is the God of the oppressed.

Melbourne focused on the identification of Christianity with the poor and marginalized of the world in their struggle for liberation and justice.

There, Christians must involve themselves in the struggle for liberation in the economic and political arena and ally themselves with others in that struggle.

Unless we participate in the struggle of the poor for their liberation, we can understand nothing about Jesus Christ....

The main liberation movement, the ANC, long committed to nonviolent resistance under the influence of Gandhi and its Christian roots, had by 1963 decided, after agonizing debate, to engage in an armed struggle.

In India we need to have two kinds of liberation struggles: first, to liberate.

This pathos or suffering or pain is prior to their involvement in any activist struggle for liberation.

In many respects Bonhoeffer's main contribution in South Africa has been his challenge to those of us there who are socially privileged and academically trained, as he was, and therefore numbered among an elite minority — even if we have sought to be in solidarity with those who struggled for liberation and attempted to identify with the victims of apartheiIn many respects Bonhoeffer's main contribution in South Africa has been his challenge to those of us there who are socially privileged and academically trained, as he was, and therefore numbered among an elite minority — even if we have sought to be in solidarity with those who struggled for liberation and attempted to identify with the victims of apartheiin South Africa has been his challenge to those of us there who are socially privileged and academically trained, as he was, and therefore numbered among an elite minority — even if we have sought to be in solidarity with those who struggled for liberation and attempted to identify with the victims of apartheiin solidarity with those who struggled for liberation and attempted to identify with the victims of apartheid.

How does Liberation Theology extend beyond the capitalist / socialist struggle that was occurring in Latin America in a specific era?

«It was the Dominicans... on the island of Hispañola in 1511,» concludes historian Enrique Dussel, «who began the struggle for justice and liberation in Latin America.»

Yet in doing so they are left with no foundation for moral knowledge, and must get by with notions of liberation, struggle, and propaganda.

In fact, U.S. liberation movements are already under way in women's groups, community organizing efforts among the poor, the search for freedom by gay and lesbian communities, and in Native American, African American and Hispanic struggles against U.S. racism, and in a host of works for justice, peace and the wholeness of creatioIn fact, U.S. liberation movements are already under way in women's groups, community organizing efforts among the poor, the search for freedom by gay and lesbian communities, and in Native American, African American and Hispanic struggles against U.S. racism, and in a host of works for justice, peace and the wholeness of creatioin women's groups, community organizing efforts among the poor, the search for freedom by gay and lesbian communities, and in Native American, African American and Hispanic struggles against U.S. racism, and in a host of works for justice, peace and the wholeness of creatioin Native American, African American and Hispanic struggles against U.S. racism, and in a host of works for justice, peace and the wholeness of creatioin a host of works for justice, peace and the wholeness of creation.

The challenge to say something about God and the black liberation struggle was enhanced when Ronald Goetz (a classmate during my student years at Garrett) invited me in February 1968 to lecture at Elmhurst College, where he was teaching.

Liberation theology has tended to place special emphasis on certain portions of the Bible, notably the story of the Exodus, the social criticism of the prophets, the figure of Mary, Jesus» preaching of the kingdom of God, the depiction of the liberating Christian community in Acts, and the struggle against evil in its imperialist and cosmic guise in the Book of Revelation.

In challenging process theology to state explicitly that God sides with the oppressed, and to do so in a way that does not rule out the possibility of righteous counterviolence, I understand Jones to be challenging process theology to explicate the social - ethical consequences of accepting certain metaphysical truths in order that black theology might measure its ethical content against the needs of the struggle for liberatioIn challenging process theology to state explicitly that God sides with the oppressed, and to do so in a way that does not rule out the possibility of righteous counterviolence, I understand Jones to be challenging process theology to explicate the social - ethical consequences of accepting certain metaphysical truths in order that black theology might measure its ethical content against the needs of the struggle for liberatioin a way that does not rule out the possibility of righteous counterviolence, I understand Jones to be challenging process theology to explicate the social - ethical consequences of accepting certain metaphysical truths in order that black theology might measure its ethical content against the needs of the struggle for liberatioin order that black theology might measure its ethical content against the needs of the struggle for liberation.

Broadly conceived, black theology asks not only about the metaphysical status of process theology, but also, and more importantly, can process theology illuminate social - political ethics in a way that contributes favorably to the liberation struggle?

Ture says that no matter how overwhelming the might of the oppressor, it is in the very nature of the people that they will struggle and struggle and struggle for as long as they are oppressed until at last they achieve their liberation.6 Vincent Harding's history — There is a River — emphasizes the inevitability of the African - American struggle for liberation.

Thus Vincent Harding, Kwame Ture, Winnie Mandela, and many others have spoken in accordance with the philosophy of black power in maintaining that where there is oppression, there will also be some form of protest and struggle for liberation.

The late Howard Thurman once described the necessary aspect of the struggle for liberation by using an analogy from nature.7 Thurman recalled that on one occasion during his childhood in Daytona Beach, he happened upon a tiny green snake crawling along a dirt path.

In order for his appeal to be successful Douglass knew he would have to reconcile a certain pious regard for the well - being of slave owners with supporting the slaves» struggle for liberation.

We might add that the meaning of liberation and the character of the struggle were yet and again different for young Huey Newton (co-founder of the Black Panther Party) as be lay hand - cuffed and under armed guard even while in surgery as the result of being shot by two policemen in 1967.

But, again, according to the Exodus account, this is done for the sake of contributing, in the long run, to the struggle for liberation.

It helps one to conceptualize women's struggles for «civil rights» in the church and for our theological authority to shape Christian faith and community as an important part of women's liberation struggles around the globe.

She has formed her own theology as she has learned from a long tradition of Chinese Christian women who struggled «not only for their own liberation, but also for justice in church and society

In Latin America, liberation theology began to speak of the hope and struggle of the poor.

To Jefferson and the evangelicals, perhaps those most concerned that the element of liberation not be lost in the act of institution, the establishment of the Constitution was only the beginning instead of the end of the struggle.

To be free of ideological captivity is to «join the community of struggle,» to oppose racism and sexism, to fight for human rights and women's ordination, to engage in social action, to envision «holiness as justice,» and to develop nonsexist language and imagery in order to «empower» and free the congregation to engage in the «struggle for liberation.»

Two such schools of thought have been North American process theology based on the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead and liberation theology which originated in the struggles of Third World peoples for economic, political,...

As long as the scandal of poverty and oppression exists and as long as there are Christians who live and critically reflect on their faith in the context of the struggle for justice and life, liberation theology will continue to exist».

Liberation theology to a large extent agrees with Marxist analysis in its identification with the oppressed in the struggle against the oppressor.

Protestant liberalism is not infallible, but what are the alternatives: They are in recent times to retreat behind a revelation claim (neo-orthodoxy), to deny the reality of God (death of God), to dwell on one important yet narrow aspect of the struggle for justice (liberation), or to recite stories.

Two such schools of thought have been North American process theology based on the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead and liberation theology which originated in the struggles of Third World peoples for economic, political, and social independence but now has broadened to include the aspiration of minority groups (e.g., women and blacks) even within affluent First World countries.

The basic weakness in all forms of so - called liberation theology is their overstress on one aspect of the struggle for justice.

Instead it is reduced to an aid in understanding either the unfolding cosmic drama (as with process thought) or the class struggle of history (as with liberation theology).

God insures humanity continued participation in the struggle for liberation.

tends to view the problem of liberation from its own narrow perspective in its own historical struggle.

The basic distinction that is pressed in all of these attempts to separate «true» from «false» liberation is that the former is based on gospel values, while the latter is overly dependent on Karl Marx and a Marxist analysis of the world, especially in relation to Marx's theory of class struggle.

In other words, they saw clearly that along with the struggle for justice for the industrial working class, we must simultaneously go forward with the liberation of dalits, tribals and women if we have to realize an Indian socialism.

On the other hand, his struggle to find meaning, the liberation he may have felt in finally choosing to end his life, the benefit he may have felt by removing himself as «troublesome» to others could actually be valuable experiences that God can use positively to stimulate more meaningful actiondecisions in the minister - brother, for example.

The struggles for economic justice, political freedom and cultural renewal are elements in the total liberation of the world through the mission of Christ.