"Liberation theology" is the idea that religion should be used to liberate people from inequality, oppression, and social injustice. It emphasizes helping the poor and marginalized and challenging systems of power and wealth that perpetuate inequality.
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Whether in the south or in the country as a whole, we will not be able to understand what is going on unless we acknowledge the premise of
liberation theology in this regard.
If he had done so, perhaps American white theologians would not have ignored the black freedom struggle and would have been less hostile toward the rise of
black liberation theology.
Several readers expressed interest in entry - level book recommendations
on liberation theology for newcomers to the topic.
I'm actually glad about it because it gave liberation theologians an opportunity to share
about liberation theology in a more public way.
Why do you think that video struck such a nerve, and what might the reaction to it reveal about common misconceptions about
liberation theology among the American public?
I'm wondering how theologians like you felt about that sudden exposure and the
way liberation theology has been discussed in the media.
The scriptures of all religious traditions address justice and the moral dimensions of social and economic life, as does much recent moral theology — from the social gospel
through liberation theology.
Yet
liberation theology simply can not be understood without an appreciation f how these proponents struggle to hold themselves accountable first and foremost to the poor they serve.
Process theology, in spite of its claims to the contrary, is not very compatible
with liberation theology and in fact often works at cross purposes to it.
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.
Other liberation theologies include feminist theology, disability theology, womanist theology, ecological theology, gay and lesbian theology (to name a few).
The Exodus liberation paradigm which had tremendous implications
for liberation theologies in Latin America has extensively influenced the thinking and articulation of Dalit theology in India.
One may quote the stirring words of Deane William Fern at the close of his essay «Third
World Liberation Theology: Challenge to World Religions in Dan Cohn - Sherbok, World Religions and Human Liberation, (New York: Orbis, 1992), p. 19.
Accordingly, I am organizing my remarks around five topics where tensions still exist
between liberation theology and process theology, believing that reflection on these tensions can lead to fruitful changes on both sides.
More generally, the loss of prestige suffered by international socialism after Tiananmen Square, and even more after the «velvet revolution» against socialist oppression in Eastern Europe, brought the «Marxist analysis» on which
liberation theology so heavily depended into universal disrepute.
Your language filters preclude posting quotes from James H. Cone's book on that particular form of
liberation theology because of the racist, hate filled nature of those quotes.
He contrasts Wright with James Cone, the 1960s proponent of black
liberation theology who disparaged a focus on Jesus as Saviour as «Christofascism», along with others who contend that black folk should fnd their primary identity in race rather than religion.
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,»...
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