Sentences with phrase «liberation theologians»

There is nothing in the social location of liberation theologians to prevent this.

Process thinkers must come to grips with the urgent social justice issues raised by liberation theologians.

The impact of such groups should be understood as a significant sign of the times for the new generation of Latin American liberation theologians.

This was a framework many liberation theologians found significant and useful.

This is more difficult for liberation theologians to accept.

The first three sections of this paper have illustrated this, indicating the changes needed on the side of process theology as it responds to the truth of what liberation theologians are saying.

But the question I am asking is how North American theologians can appropriately respond when they acknowledge the truth, and the critical importance, of what they hear from liberation theologians.

But liberation theologians pointed out that this was not the case.

Some — although certainly not most — liberation theologians do jump to this radical conclusion.

The question now is whether there is any point of contact on the side of liberation theology for the concerns of process theologians in areas to which liberation theologians have paid less attention.

Occasionally liberation theologians suggest that injustice is a function of capitalism and would be overcome more or less automatically in a socialist society.

In what can be only a brief sampling of Asian liberation theologians, I will mention a few more of the many others well worth reading.

Here liberation theologians have something valuable to offer us.

Although not altogether absent, that was certainly not the major note that liberation theologians struck in the beginning.

Having absorbed liberation theologians, he moved on to a specifically black theology.

There continues to be much mutual support among liberation theologians representing different groups.

But there is another dimension of the problem of development that became apparent to process theologians before it was noticed by liberation theologians.

Among Latin American liberation theologians this is often, even usually, what is hoped for.

The insistence on the value of other creatures seems to many liberation theologians to be an effort to impose on poor people unnecessary limits to the way they go about meeting their urgent needs.

But in the case of liberation theologians, this is not obviously the case.

We often overlook the fact that Africa and Asia are producing an impressive cadre of liberation theologians who deserve an equally wide hearing as they reflect their own indigenous situation.

For seventeen years Tony Clarke, an Anglican, directed the Social Affairs department of the Canadian bishops conference, working in tandem with liberation theologian Gregory Baum.

Further, Black liberation theologians pointed out how little the Social Gospel dealt with the oppression of African - Americans.

Marxism, therefore, is not an ideologically neutral, analytic instrument, as liberation theologians claim.

To reckon with Barth, then, is to encounter one whose theology later inspired liberation theologians in Latin America and antiapartheid theologians in South Africa — a theologian who felt that what you pray for, you must also work for.

«To come to know» in this way in this sense is to experience what liberation theologians call an «epistemological break.

Walker's vision as an African American liberation theologian gives his essay its strength, and tears asunder his harmonious vision of Hartshornean idealism.

Similarly, the quite different issues raised by feminists properly have a priority for us that they do not yet have for most liberation theologians.

To their credit, African liberation theologians have been far more aware of the strong native religious roots competing with Islam and Christianity.

Liberation theologians want to make sure that Christian faith will not be used as ideological support for selfish interests and repressive situations.

Yet Benedict was suspicious of liberation theologians because some aligned themselves with political movements that sought to overthrow repressive governments in Latin America, other historians say.

«Although they [liberation theologians] talked about the option for the poor, the poor ultimately opted for Pentecostalism,» Ramirez says.

This does not mean that when we follow liberation theologians in the turn to praxis, our method will be exactly the same as theirs.

Indeed, I believe that those few liberation theologians who have seriously studied process theology have profited from doing so.

Process theologians can hardly read the writings of liberation theologians without being pleased to see that many of their emphases are highly congenial.

The two - phase view also overlooks the way liberation theologians, according to McGovern, remain for all their changes «fundamentally anticapitalist and still convinced that Latin America suffers from a dependence on the world - capitalist economic system with its center in the North.»

He insists that even those who urge liberation theologians to take capitalism more seriously need to acknowledge that the realities of politics and markets often choke democratic capitalism.

Existential theologies are intensely private and inward Liberation theologians have charged that God becomes the alibi for not engaging with the world.

Liberation theologian Jon Sobrino reminds us of the second century Christian Irenacus, who claimed: Gloria Dei vivens homo, the glory of God is that the human being will live.

Whether it be conflict from his childhood when he was raised in Muslim household, or from his time in Hawaii when his Communist mentor likely eschewed any religion, or during college bringing him closer to a community likely agnostic at best, atheist perhaps, followed by years in which he sat listening to Black Liberation Theologian Wright, his relationship with Christianity's basic tenet is uneasy to say the least.

One of South Korea's foremost liberation theologians is the poet Kim Chi - Ha.

This is not to suggest that Niebuhr was the first liberation theologian (an honor that probably belongs to Jesus de Nazareth), but simply to suggest that as we North Americans confront liberation theology in its properly indigenous forms — whether in Asia, Africa or Latin America — the similarities to Niebuhr's thought are a help rather than a hindrance in that encounter.

Christian liberation theologians have been clear in their emphasis on human rights of the peoples oppressed due to racism, colonialism or gender.