Sentences with phrase «liberation theology as»

The documents portray liberation theology as a fundamental enemy that must be countered through a strategy of continental security measures which include the coordination of military intelligence and operations.

Signed by military commanders from Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay, Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Panama, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, and the United States the documents attack liberation theology as a tool of international communism.

The Santa Fe Report targets liberation theology as a major challenge to U.S. foreign policy because it refuses to be silent about death or about the possibilities for new life.

Ortega's use of biblical imagery to describe U.S. attacks against his people illustrates why the Santa Fe Report targets liberation theology as enemy.

This is important, I believe, in order to contextualize the real import of liberation theology as calling for a new realization of social justice in dialectical contradiction to conservatism and liberalism.

I can't judge liberation theology as a whole.

From Rachel: When you google «Liberation Theology,» the second article to come up after Wikipedia is an article about liberation theology by TV personality Glenn Beck, who describes liberation theology as a «perversion of God.»

The driving force of Jones» assessment is his understanding of liberation theology as «an extended theodicy.»

The second recent book to advance the response of process theology to liberation theology significantly is Delwin Brown's To Set at Liberty.7 This is not so much a critical response to the challenge of the liberation theologies as a reflection on freedom stimulated by this literature.

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Other Facts: Is a conservative, considered the driving force behind crackdowns on liberation theology, religious pluralism, challenges to traditional moral teachings on issues such as homosexuality, and dissent on issues such as women's ordination, according to CNN's John Allen in «Who is Pope Benedict XVI.»

Praxiology theology is nothing more than atheistic and materialistic Marxism wearing the cloak of a saint and in South America it is known as «Liberation theology» (to this day, I know of no one liberated from any sort of oppression by it).

As for theology, the word means speaking - of - God, which in Christian terms means speaking of the One who is Truth — the Truth Who makes us free in the deepest meaning of human liberation.

«In Latin America, both as Cardinal Ratzinger and as the pope, Benedict devoted himself to the systematic dismantling of the infrastructure of liberation theology,» Hughes says.

«Liberation theology is for the most part out of favor in Latin America because it has been largely deemed by indigenous people as increasingly irrelevant,» Raschke says.

The university is striving to overcome the intellectual insularity of the Soviet era, but few of the theology students I met had wrestled with the difficult challenges that have shaped contemporary Western theology, such as historical criticism or theologies of liberation.

Another fascinating chapter is Frederick Pike's on Latin America since 1800, wherein the suggestion is offered that liberation theology's «ahistorical» character comes from its Neoplatonist strain» ironically, one of the most radically transcendental philosophies available as a basis for religious life and theology.

Wait is there such a thing as a traditional black liberation theology robes and headdress?

In light of this ravaging of people and land in Central America, we realize that the preferential option for the poor, characteristic of Latin American liberation theologies, must be articulated as a preferential option for life.

Jones uses these guidelines as a «grid» in order to evaluate process theology's compatibility claims with liberation theology.

In constructing a black liberation theology, Jones» vision returns him, in the words of poet Langston Hughes, to «rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.

In this regard, part of John B. Cobb, Jr.'s treatment of liberation theology in his book, Process Theology as Political Theology, is a case itheology in his book, Process Theology as Political Theology, is a case iTheology as Political Theology, is a case iTheology, is a case in point.

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.

Whitehead's belief that reality is ultimately rational and that God saves the world through the overwhelming power of rationality ignores an element basic to Christian theology and is woefully inadequate as a liberation theology.

I am glad that blacks and women and Latin Americans have, throughout the decade been demanding that theology be so formulated as to call for and advance human liberation.

When white, middle class, North American process theologians consider our social location seriously and adapt our theology to the understanding that results, North Atlantic process theology as a whole can become complementary to liberation theology.

Though not in the camp of liberal Protestantism, ELCA Lutheranism is so positioned in the American religious scene as to be deeply affected by all the movements, «theologies of,» and liberation forces of the past decades.

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.

I can not identify with any one form of liberation theology, and insofar as they are separated from the technical, historical and methodological questions dealt with by the «establishment,» these theologies suffer incompleteness.

The pastor espoused a black liberation theology that equates Jesus» life and death with the plight of those who Wright saw as disenfranchised, from African - Americans to Palestinians.

«Liberation theology issues a call not only to Christianity, but to the other religions of the world as well.

As with liberation theology, feminisms elsewhere are a point of reference for an indigenous development, the nature of which has yet to be adequately described.

Although Brown does not uncritically agree with everything said by theologians of liberation, he presents his form of process theology more as a supplementation and conceptual grounding of their insights than as expressing a different understanding of the theological task.

The presence of other divergences too (David Moss's luminous piece on friendship stands very well alone), the dispersal of the group on both sides of the Atlantic, and the fact that some members are already deep into other conversations all suggest that as a movement it will (at least in Britain) either fragment or at best fare like feminist, liberation and nonrealist theologies, and have its main influence as a point of reference and interrogation.

As he sees it most of the liberation theologies are chiefly a matter of witness.

Latin American liberation theology also functions emphatically as a biblical hermeneutic and in this respect is encouraged.

Trinity does not believe traditional protestant beliefs, and is more rightly termed as a Liberation Theology Church, than a protestant church.

We could understand a theology of liberation as a doctrine of liberation, namely, as what the church teaches about liberation.

That is clear from the pastor's own words as he declared himself to be believe in James Cone style liberation theology.

Thus today people acknowledge a variety of theologies — such as Liberation theology, Black theology, Feminist theology.

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

as well as black theology, female liberation theology.

His article Christian Social Spiritualitypromotes Liberation Theology and he cites approvingly Jon Sobrino, just as Gerard Mannion quotes approvingly whom he calls «the esteemed moral theologian, Charles E. Curran.»

Seminaries, especially those that have been influenced by liberation theologies, recognize that professional ministerial education should not be defined only as meeting the institutional needs of the churches.

From Brian: Liberation Theology is often criticized as reframing the gospel as a social / political agenda at the expense of the message of forgiveness of sins through Jesus.

Liberation theology focuses on the ministry of Jesus as recorded in the Bible — the gospels in particular.

Without realizing it I was trying to articulate a relational ontology as a companion piece to the profoundly moral motives and commitments of liberation theology.

Some of the insights provided by the first phase of liberation theology seem too important to let slip between the cracks — for instance, the centrality of the category «the poor» for biblical interpretation; the awareness of structural, not just individual, evil; the use of the social sciences as dialogue partner for theological discourse; and the need to apply a hermeneutic of suspicion to theology itself.

Today, in many parts of the world, more original theologies are being developed such as liberation theology, black theology, Minjung theology, Dalit theology and various others - which are trying to respond to local realities and to take into account the cultures in which the Gospel takes root.

Jon Sobrino has written that as long as there is suffering, poverty, exclusion and premature death on an immense scale — which is ever more the case in Latin America — there will be need for a theology (whatever its name) that poses the kinds of questions posed by liberation theology.

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