Sentences with phrase «liberation theologians without»

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

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As a result, he argues, theologians feel themselves free to use the Bible for whatever purpose they wish, from the liberation of women to the church - growth movement, without regard for its supposedly irrecoverable original intent.

But, as Ogden notes with respect to liberation theologians, they «focus on the existential meaning of God for us without dealing at all adequately with the metaphysical being of God in himself».22 To reject the conceptual task of theology reflects an inadequate understanding of how faith functions.

In 1978 he wrote about Christ Without Myth: «The newer theological developments of the past decade, especially the emergence of the various theologians of liberation, compelled the conclusion that the most urgent theological problem today, at any rate for the vast number of persons who still do not share in the benefits of modernity, is a problem more of action and justice than of belief and truth.