Sentences with phrase «need for liberation»

In the modern West, people generally think of slavery, captivity, and the need for liberation in Orwell's sense, rather than Huxley's.

Recognizing the need for liberation from inward and outward sources of oppression, it also proposes a liberating vision free from the suffocating constraints of the mechanistic, deterministic, substantialist view of reality, it is all the more remarkable in having been written by two professional theologians, although one of them, to be sure, is a professional biologist.

In them we find clearly articulated such themes as the importance of the communidades de base («grass - roots «Christian groups); Jesus as the liberator from hunger, misery, oppression and ignorance; the refusal to separate Christian sanctification from «temporal» tasks; challenges to capitalism (as well as to Marxism); the theory of «dependency» on inhuman economic systems; the need for liberation from neocolonialism; the need for «conscienticization»; the need for the church to support the downtrodden; the correlation of peace and justice; and the reality of «institutionalized violence.»

Not exact matches

«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.»

There was so much the church needed to be doing for peace, for liberation, for mutual understanding among the peoples and religions!

As we move into the»90s with an economic structure that is killing poor people, a «war against drugs» that is a racist war against the urban poor, an unapologetic «post-feminist» contempt for women and girls and a mounting ecological crisis, we will need as much as ever to be able to create liberation in the midst of suffering.

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.

Trusting in God's grace - full activity in our world, we need to try to halt the juggernaut of U.S. policy and redirect it toward liberation — whether it's called a «restructuring» or a «revolution» — for all the Americas.

Divorce can be the greatest liberation of all for those who really need it.»

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.

We often hear it said that there exists a basic human need for some sort of deliverance, salvation, release, liberation, pacification, or whatever we may wish to call it, and that this intrinsic need is one of the main foundations of all religion.

They seem to have forgotten, and need to be reminded, that we are here because of liberation, because Christ has already been raised by the glory of the Father, and that this has been done for us men and women, all of us.

If we are to understand either those aspirations or the failure to attain them, we must continue our effort to understand the nature of this covenant - making people with its deep need for newness and for liberation from oldness in religion, in politics, and in personal life, as well as the moral predicaments the search for newness and liberation so often generated.

No inflated rhetoric was necessary, and the need for brevity led to both liberation and purification in the use of language.

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.

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.

It is brutally frank assessment of the deplorable conditions in the Indian Church and the urgent, indispensable need for it to re-orient itself to the challenges of the day if it is to continue to be an effective instrument for individual liberation and the ushering in of a happier tomorrow and a better society.

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.

While interesting and suggestive, such views also involve considerable problems in both clarifying and justifying the idea of «respect for nature (and the related notions of the «rights» of nature or the need for nature's liberation from human intervention and the imposition of human purposes).

The explicit reference to Jesus Christ becomes in this view gratuitous in the original sense of the word — something which is not demanded by or needed for the struggle [of socioeconomic liberation]... The reference to Jesus Christ does not add an «extra» to the historical struggle but is totally and without rest identified with it.

For two decades, liberation theologians blamed Latin American misery on «capitalist methods» such as markets, private property, and profits, and they looked for economic salvation by way of a «socialist» strategy of «basic needs.&raqFor two decades, liberation theologians blamed Latin American misery on «capitalist methods» such as markets, private property, and profits, and they looked for economic salvation by way of a «socialist» strategy of «basic needs.&raqfor economic salvation by way of a «socialist» strategy of «basic needs.»

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.

If you'll permit me to leave this thought: I have concluded after many years of «church hopping» to finally «no church» that what we need in the «church» is not anything «new» as stated in your last paragraph but rather a «liberation from»... I conclude that the church (organized or free) considers this return to liberty (brought about by Christ) as a legitimate «next step» in the history of «church» but that is firstly a lie and secondly opens up a door for even more destructive creativity by humans.

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.

If and in so far as socialism... means the satisfaction of material need and social justice in a material democracy, socialism is the symbol for the liberation of men from the vicious circle of poverty.

In the economic dimension of life, liberation means the satisfaction of the material needs of men for health, nourishment, clothing and somewhere to live.

In the context of our social situation, revelation means the promise of justice for and liberation of the oppressed and the poor, of all whose basic needs have not been met and whose human dignity has not been recognized.

All men have the need and the obligation to participate not only in the struggle for the liberation of man from all forms of oppression, exploitation and ignorance, but also in the positive effort to master all wisdom and power in love so that all may attain to the fullness of the liberty of the children of God.28

Yet having a party to celebrate signing the final paperwork could suggest to your children that whatever took place was so dark and severe that your survival and liberation are cause for celebration — and it could also open the door for guests and friends to innocently reveal details your kids simply don't need to know.

Institutions that conduct research with animals have been targeted by groups such as the Animal Liberation Front, for example, and institutions that do defense - related studies may need to increase staff awareness of those who might seek access to restricted materials or information.

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What we need, according to Richard Kahn, Sam Fassbinder and Anthony Nocella, is a critical intervention by visionary educational leaders who are willing to going together with social movements, in order to transfigure the relationship between the school and the society as part of a larger struggle for liberation.

We don't need any more puffy announcements of youth liberation, such as «This greater self - awareness and freedom brings with it new responsibilities and opportunities for students to better advocate for themselves.»

«Above all else, our politics initially sprang from the shared belief that Black women are inherently valuable, that our liberation is a necessity not as an adjunct to somebody else's but because of our need as human persons for autonomy... We realize that the only people who care enough about us to work consistently for our liberation are us.

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German artist Gerhard Richter, set to celebrate his 80th birthday on February 9th and receive all the accolades and exhibitions such a landmark deserves, recently revealed to the German periodical Der Spiegel that he has been destroying some of his own work for over half a century for a variety of reasons, most of which entail a need for «liberation» from the constraints his public threatened to place on him as a «name» artist.

South Sudan declared its independence from Sudan in July, and Luka Biong Deng, a senior member of South Sudan's ruling Sudan People's Liberation Movement and executive director of KUSH, credited Wiley Rein this week for its pro bono services in helping the new nation obtain a much - needed exemption from U.S. sanctions targeting Sudan, which has endured more than 50 years of civil war.