Sentences with phrase «liberation theologies now»

Once considered exotic and fanciful, liberation theologies now have a good chance of becoming the way ahead for theology in the next century.

Once considered exotic and fanciful, liberation theologies now have a good chance of becoming the way ahead for theology in the next century — if only they can manage to be true both to the aspirations of the oppressed and to the reality of the beyond in their midst [«Third World Theology, Fourth World Liberation,» The Christian Century, May 19, 1976, P. 477]

Once considered exotic and fanciful, liberation theologies now have a good chance of becoming the way ahead for theology in the next century — if only they can manage to be true both to the aspirations of the oppressed and to the reality of the beyond in their midst [«Third World Theology, Fourth World Liberation,»...

Not exact matches

Pentecostal - flavored religion, not liberation theology, is now sweeping Latin America, says Daniel Ramirez, a religion professor at the University of Michigan.

Let us now take a further step and talk about another dimension or kind of liberation theology — we might speak indeed of liberation theology type B, as opposed to the original type A.

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.

Liberation theology found some of its first expressions in Latin America and among African Americans, but now includes a range of expressions, including feminist and womanist theology.

A theology of liberation is not asking what the church has said and now should say about liberation.

I wanted to feature liberation theology because I hear people reference it now and then, but I really don't know much about it, and I suspect I'm not alone.

I think we can, tip until now the major challenge to business as usual and the old - time religion has been from liberation theology.

In particular I think the theological style associated with the various «liberation theologies» tends to continue the assumption that Christians have a stake in using violence to make history «come out right» — except that now power will be used to aid the oppressed.

In my view, once you start going down the WWJD Road, you're now on the same road used by both Latin American and Black Liberation Theology which takes Jesus out of context to justify socialism which in the United States is supported by progressive liberals.

This is how someone identifies another Christian now, with scary words: liberation theology, strain of theology, mixes in Marxism, social agenda that is not inherent to Christianity, and the Unitarian sound.

Human experience and ultimate liberation which are integral parts of the «here and now» are primary to the doing of Dalit theology.

The advocacy scholarship of liberation theologies corresponds and contributes to the hermeneutical and dialectical shifts toward praxis now Occurring in what are called post-empiricist philosophies of science (BOR, TKH).

Philosophically, liberation theologies are sometimes portrayed as more or less naive popular movements drawing upon now outdated 19th century notions of divergent vintages: Marxist (Third World), social gospel (First World), suffragette (Feminist), black nationalism (Black), agrarian pastoralism (Environmentalist), or romantic pacifism (Nuclear Pacifist).

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.

It is not hard to see now, although I was scarcely able to see it then, that the next logical step after The Secular City was liberation theology.

This shift derives in part from a recovery of 19th - century liberal theology's emphasis on experience as important theological data — an emphasis now embraced by various forms of liberation theology.

What we called up to now Hispanic women's liberation theology will henceforth be mujerista theology.

Thanks to the political theologies and theologies of liberation the question of faith and justice has now become a, if not the, central question of Christian theology.

All we are saying now in liberation theology is this: in the United States we've finally got to take Reinhold Niebuhr's pioneering step serious in theology as well as in social ethics.

Among the far - reaching effects of the great antisocialist revolutions of 1989 is one that has so far not received a proper measure of attention, and that is their impact on Latin American liberation theology At least one liberation theologian, observing the collapse of the socialist dream in Eastern Europe, publicly expressed fear that the two estranged parts of «the North,» East and West, would now embrace each other heartily and forget the South.

Delwin Brown, likewise, has» listened deeply to the call of liberation theology, seeking to elucidate the history of the notion of freedom which is now embodied in liberation thought and action.