Sentences with word «liberationist»

«While the rich variety «of liberationist writings defies easy characterization, most of the writers are united in one overpowering theme; the Gospel of Jesus Christ is represented most authentically in the liberation of the world's oppressed people from their bondage.

Would you not concede to the thesis that effective liberationist impulses, as different from those which sought to mitigate the plight of the poverty - stricken and outcastes were stirred and given an institutional framework by Marxist movement especially in Kerala which has the largest Christian population in the country?

The strong support among process theologians for liberationist concerns has not always helped to bridge the gap toward evangelicals.

One should not, however, exaggerate the numbers involved in base communities, as many liberationists do in identifying them as «the people.»

Given this situation, the question here will be exclusively that of whether contemporary Wesleyan liberationists can claim support from Wesley for the new position they have adopted.

Many theologians are thinking and writing from a self - conscious socio - cultural perspective, be it Afro - American, Latin American liberationist or feminist.

Liberationists understand praxis as following the life of faith in a way that consciously accounts for the historical circumstances of oppression and seeks to correct those, in accordance with Christ's own preaching.

It has settled for many kinds of millennial visions, for a number of philosophical contexts for theological endeavor, and for varied attitudes toward feminist and liberationist hermeneutics.

Black liberationist theology was reinforced on its main points by that of Latin America.

Those who do not want to deal with the issues raised by liberationists and women are trying to close the door upon them.

And of course Marxian analysis took on renewed life» if, most often, in crudely vulgar forms» in the various liberationist struggles of the 1960s and 1970s, most notably in the anti-Vietnam War movement.

It should be pointed out, though, that nothing in the social - constructivist position legitimates the denial of rights... Assertive gay liberationists have argued that it may be strategically wiser to concede the possibility that a few students might be influenced to become gay by having an openly gay teacher as a role model, and to say, «So what?»

He came away from the experience disillusioned, concluding that with its drift away from orthodoxy and its increasing preoccupation with liberationist, feminist, postmodern, and post-Christian themes, «liberal Protestant theology had come to a dead end.»

In most cases, liberationist theologies have taken root in situations that call for freedom from existing government and economic structures.

I have been deeply influenced by East Asian classical culture, tribal societies and their myths, and feminists and liberationists among contemporary thinkers, all of whom I would include in the ongoing conversation.

It represents a tried and true strategy designed to stigmatize and marginalize anyone who dares to dissent from sexual liberationist orthodoxy.

It's extremely likely that the only significant, ongoing dissent to sexual liberationist orthodoxy will come from religious people and the institutions they run for the sake of living out their faith.»

When a particular form of liberation becomes ultimate for a group, then its unity with other branches of the Christian family, even other liberationist branches, becomes one of alliances and networking.

It will learn something from what liberationists, women, and others have said, but it will incorporate only what can be assimilated into the mainstream of a relatively unchanged tradition.

In this view there can be no meaning apart from praxis, and liberationist theologians endeavor to show that the theology of the Old Testament prophets was articulated in response to economic and political upheavals.

Sifton takes no interest in current academic debates over her father's theological method, and she ignores liberationist critiques of his nationalism, cold warriorism and androcentrism.

As everywhere else in liberal Protestantism, its central headquarters is staffed by modish theological bureaucrats in thrall to the latest liberationist, feminist, and multiculturalist whims.

The task force, to its credit, sought to relieve very real pain, but the tools it used - enlightenment personalism, liberationist feminism, reductionist Lutheranism, and great quantities of naivete and sentimentalism - are not up to the job.

The argument was made according to a classic liberationist reading of the scriptural mandate.

They did so because they wanted missionaries to deal with personal conversions to Christ and avoid liberationist entanglements.

Thus liberationist spokespeople are left to issue prophetic calls necessarily devoid of the practical guidelines their commitment to political change would entail.

Articles and teaching sessions are devoted to social scandals like the increase in hunger, poverty, homelessness and illiteracy in the U.S. Likewise, issues surrounding U.S. foreign policy, aid and grotesque military appropriations are frequently critiqued on behalf of a foreseen new social order that will be founded on liberationist principles.

Indeed, the animal rights movement's fury against the speciesist use of animals» a necessary element for human flourishing, particularly in medical research» has increased to the point that scientists are now under threat of death by the most radical liberationists for daring to experiment on rats or monkeys to find cures for cancer and other human afflictions.

Along the way, she counters the restricted rationalism of analytic philosophy and the utopianism of sundry liberationist proposals for «fixing» the world.

He wrote a thesis that was feminist and liberationist before those movements existed.

The potential leadership of at least the persuaders among the Christian R&D professionals is problematic, considering the weight of empirical evidence accumulated against liberationist diagnoses and prescriptions for the Third World's woes.

It is a veritable catalogue of liberationist cliches.

Other forms will prove more clearly postmodern, such as Gustavo Guttierez's powerful reflections on contemporary theology's need to face the reality of the «nonperson» of the oppressed in the massive global suffering surrounding us, as distinct from modern theology's more typical concern with the «nonbeliever»; and the many alternative forms of postmodern theologies in feminist, womanist, African - American and global liberationist struggles and theologies.

It is not parallel to evangelical, liberal, and liberationist forms of the Wesleyan movement.

When I began formal theological studies at Harvard Divinity School, neo-Kantian and liberationist paradigms prevailed there.

Liberationists initially took it as just one more instance of comfortable members of the white male establishment indulging their intellectual interests in a profoundly oppressive world.

The critique of the Third World liberationists was not accorded much attention or built into these responses; The ecological crisis was regarded primarily as a crisis between «man» and «nature,» rather than as a crisis resulting from the way in which a particular exploitative relationship between classes, races and nations used natural resources.

Despite my own left - of - center tendencies, I often wonder which is more irrelevant to the poor, the mainline piety of conservative Christians who are perfectly willing in the name of Jesus» love to let the wealth trickle down, or the self - styled realism of the theological liberationist establishment, which despite its telling assault on the illusions and self - serving hypocrisy of the powerful have little more to offer politically than socialist wool - gathering.

The author cites numerous liberationist sources as authority, including the late Penny Lernoux, a notorious master of Marxist agitprop.

There is a mounting insistence among women (including many who reject the methods of militant liberationists) that they be treated as full human beings, with freedom to choose and to develop their personal gifts and abilities.

It is easy to caricature rival understandings: liberationists insist that realists are all closet neoconservatives, and traditionalists proclaim that feminists have all started down the slippery slope that leads to goddess worship.

Coming as he does from a region where the Church's validity among the poor has been damaged by the competition between the traditional hierarchy and the less - than - orthodox liberationists, the Pope's concern is understandable.

At the same time, for carefully weighed reasons (almost all of them based on my understanding of the world as a social scientist), I can not give assent to the left - liberal - liberationist politics that has become monopolistically established in non - evangelical Protestantism.

As a result, we think of ourselves as Bultmannians, Barthians, process theologians, feminists or liberationists rather than as Methodists, Presbyterians, Anglicans or, perhaps, even Christians.

Evidence for this position is presumably found in such recent works by leading liberationist Gustavo Gutierrez as We Drink From Our Own Wells and On Job.

The Reformation and Liberation Theology: Insights for the Challenge of Today by Richard Shaull Westminster, 144 pages, $ 11.95 A veteran liberationist of Princeton Theological Seminary contends that the sundry Protestant reformations demand and make possible a radically new social order.

By all reports, pessimism and near - despair grip liberationists today, who see on the horizon very little indeed that offers hope of a better life to the poor of Latin America.