Sentences with phrase «liberation struggles of»

The domination of the British Empire did not prevent the outbreak of the 1st World War and the national liberation struggles of the peoples of the nations subject to its domain.

To paraphrase The Nation, the liberation struggles of the past are cross-dressing.

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

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.

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.

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 apartheid.

As he saw it, the struggle against Russia was only the prelude to the liberation of Palestine and all other lands which had once been ruled by Islam: «Jihad is now incumbent on all Muslims, and will remain so until Muslims recapture every spot that was Islamic.»

Surely the liberal christian communities would come to see the rightness of the theologies of liberation being generated globally by christians and others struggling for bread and dignity.

«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.

For female theologians from Africa, Asia and Latin America, Jesus, besides identifying with the poor, is a model of true humanity who can inspire others to struggle for liberation.

The most powerful tools available to us for teaching the ethic of eco-justice are these stories built upon the analogy between human oppression and nature's oppression, between the human struggle for liberation and nature's struggle for fulfillment.

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 creation.

No mention is made of the past century's great movements of liberation, or the worldwide women s movement, or struggles for freedom and human rights.

The whole point of Thoreau's parable — indeed, of all his writings, including Walden, Civil Disobedience and his famous Plea for Captain John Brown — is to declare that the revolution of 1776 is not yet over; the people and the land we love still struggle for liberation.

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 liberation.

The necessity of struggle against oppression can also be described through the use of neoclassical resources.8 According to such resources, it is inevitable that the oppressed will struggle for liberation.

It is characteristic of black theology to be unforgivingly critical of any theology which fails to affirm that God favors 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?

Thus, for the African newly chained to the deck of a ship anchored at a West African harbor, the meaning of liberation and the character of the struggle are very different from that of the African - American who, three generations later, like Frederick Douglass and William Wells Brown, must consider how best to conduct an abolitionist campaign.

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.

Song also speaks of a «theology of the womb,» a theology of liberation which affirms the new life struggling to be free:

Modern civil rights and liberation movements thus can be understood as struggles against patriarchal deformations of democracy.

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.

James Massey, Down Trodden: The Struggle of India's Dalits for Identity, Solidarity and Liberation.

To choose organized religion as a site of struggle for liberation presupposes a sense of ecclesial ownership as well as repentance of complicity with patriarchal religion.

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».

This connection — between the experience of the burning bush, the struggle for liberation, and the glimpses of a promised land — sheds light on Jesus» stark claims.

And we must struggle with the idea that this God of liberation is slow to be moved by injustice, for instance, when the Israelites are enslaved by the Egyptians.»

They remind us that liberation theology has never been a new theology but rather a new way of doing theology — from the perspective of the poor and their struggle for justice and liberation.

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.

Young believes that Whitehead's conception of god is supportive of liberation struggles because it takes contextualization seriously by making God responsive to actual conditions of the world without resort to divine coercion.

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).

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