Sentences with phrase «liberation theology needs»

According to Sigmund, liberation theology needs to move into a third phase, one of «dialogue with liberalism.»

Not exact matches

Liberation theology type B responds to both of these issues — the determination of theology by the needs of a community and the claim of privileged and exclusive access to theological existence.

«We need to move toward a dialogical theology in which the praxis of dialogue together with that of human liberation will constitute a true locus theologicus, i.e., both a source and basis for theological work.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

He contends, first, that liberation theology should free its social analysis from a preoccupation with global «dependent capitalism» and move toward more specific analyses of land reform and of other pressing needs which would help popular Christian movements be «more politically effective at a national level.»

If perestroika is to come to the Americas, and not just be celebrated «over there» in Eastern Europe, then liberation theology in the U.S. needs to become embodied in coordinated movements of resistance that bring to an end our government's decades - long rituals of domination in Latin America.

In challenging process theology to state explicitly that God sides with the oppressed, and to do so in a way that does not rule out the possibility of righteous counterviolence, I understand Jones to be challenging process theology to explicate the social - ethical consequences of accepting certain metaphysical truths in order that black theology might measure its ethical content against the needs of the struggle for liberation.

Theology which is based on the gospel can be timely, only as it assumes new and bold forms in relation to the actual historical situation and the particular needs of the people in their own time» (Liberation Theology and Marxism).

If liberation theology arose out of a consciousness of the oppression of the people by the capitalist system, then there is surely greater need of a theology of liberation in this age of globalization.

This global perspective contrasts not only with political theologies of the past which correlated theology with the needs of particular states, but also with liberation theologies.

Not even the opening papal address contained the salvos against liberation theology that the conservatives had hoped for (despite erroneous impressions to the contrary given by the New York Times), and the Puebla documents, though a mixed bag, gave ongoing support to the major concerns of this theology, particularly in the emphasis on the need for the church to make «a preferential option for the poor.

Its author, the Uruguayan Jesuit Juan Luis Segundo (1925 — 96), was particularly concerned with rejecting North American death - of - God theology, but already present were the beginnings of an awareness that the church needs to lend its resources not to the reinforcement of society and its present (repressive) values but to its liberation.16

The de-idealized reading of Hegel needed to utilize his thought in the context of liberation theology, it is argued, is suggestive in the case of Whitehead too.

But if his thought is to offer any kind of basis for liberation theology, a more flexible interpretation will be needed in which the emergence of the state will take place in each society in its own tune.

Liberation theology emerged in the early 20th century, sprouting out of the needs of the social communities, particularly the Black community in the United States.

But Miller said Pentecostal churches «have been more successful [than the «base communities» of liberation theology] in dealing with the felt needs of poor people — and especially women.»

A strong emphasis in current liberation theology is the imperative to let the oppressed speak for themselves and to define their own needs, and not have this done for them, however well - intentioned the outsiders.

Rather, they resulted from an often ad hoc process in which the spiritual and physical needs of the poor, the teachings of Vatican II, the intentions of the Brazilian hierarchy (running both for and against the emerging agenda of liberation theology), the brutal repression perpetrated by Brazilian dictators, and the work of academics all played a part.

In other words, one can insist that all persons need liberation and thereby blunt the concrete issues raised by particular liberation theologies.

But the deeper thesis of the book is the need for process theology for its own sake and for the sake of the gospel to become a political theology, a need unlikely to have been realized without the stimulus and challenge of the theologies of liberation and of political theology.

But the deeper thesis of the book is the need for process theology for its own sake and for the sake of the gospel to become a political theology, a need unlikely to have been realised without the stimulus and challenge of the theologies of liberation and of political theology.

Once the idea of liberation theology was established, it became clear that it could take, even needed to take, many more forms.