Sentences with phrase «of black oppression»

Empowering an artist whose come up was through black culture but now flies the symbol of black oppression, and giving him six shows and a restaurant right where one of the United States» greatest civil rights demonstrations took place, that can't be love.

This is, of course, what the story of the people of Israel is to the Jewish theologian, what the story of black oppression is to the black theologian, what the story of the poor is to the third - world theologian.

Not exact matches

You don't think the «elephant in the room» of OUR time is the fact that we awkwardly pretend affirmative action isn't racist; abortion isn't murder; people compare the gay marriage debate to 300 + years of black slavery, oppression, and / or murder; and the major political parties act like Ron Paul doesn't exist?

It may be liberation of Blacks from oppression by racist society in the United States or liberation of Latin American peasants and workers from the bondage of economic colonialism and class oppression.

Through the work primarily of feminist christians, I have been led to Sophia / Wisdom, to «Christa / community,» to Hagar the slave woman, to Jephthah's daughter and those who fight back on her behalf: images that are redemptive because they are dark, images of black or marginalized women, vilified, trivialized, rejected, silenced — and resisting their oppression and that of their sisters.

We could discuss that work that is being done in response to the Holocaust, that which is being done in the horizon of world religions, that which is being done as an expression of the experience of oppression, as by Blacks, and so forth.

Black women experience a double oppression, but many of them observe that racism is the most stubborn form of oppression.

Theology and ethics are inseparable in the black religious experience; The context of the faith of black people is a situation of racist oppression.

While Third World countries experience oppression externally from the United States, we as blacks experience oppression internally as victims of racism.

The philosophy of black power insists that, given the reality of oppression, there will be struggle against oppression.

Black theology should be the method of analyzing the gospel's concern with breaking the chains of oppression.

Moreover, black theology knows, from the data of human experience, that the experience of suffering from oppression entails a desire to be liberated from such suffering.

Blacks have to regain the confidence that they can persevere despite modern pandemic manifestations of oppression and injustice.

Accordingly, black theology understands that a liberating answer to questions pertaining to the circumstance of oppression and the struggle for freedom is essential to the Christian witness.

Moreover, it is characteristic of black power philosophy to insist, with Hartshorne, that, under certain conditions, those who support the struggle may rightfully engage in armed resistance to oppression.

Perhaps the most important theological point in this essay is that neoclassical theism, according to its own principles of method, must — given the reality of oppression — join black theology in affirming a certain priority for the conception of God as God of the oppressed.

Thus Vincent Harding, Kwame Ture, Winnie Mandela, and many others have spoken in accordance with the philosophy of black power in maintaining that where there is oppression, there will also be some form of protest and struggle for liberation.

Thus, the central challenge posed by black theology is that neoclassical metaphysics consider the realities of oppression as among the most important, if not the most important of the relevant empirical facts to be used together with non-empirical principles for the illumination of value problems of personal and social life.

Black theology teaches self - respect and self - esteem in spite of social and political condescension to and oppression of blacks.

This is not race counting, nor is it a denial of the importance of the suffering of black Americans shown through their experience of oppression — it is simply a matter of fact regarding the origins of modern American music.

He linked black resistance to oppression in the South to the very meaning of America — indeed, to the meaning of humanity.

King saw that for the vast majority of black Americans, their fundamental oppression was not that they were black, but that they were poor — last hired, first fired, locked out of the American dream, living in a vast twilight zone of joblessness and hopelessness.

The plain truth is that white theologians, even those of the social gospel period, ignored the situation of oppression suffered by blacks and made few and superficial connections between their theology and the egregious evils of slavery and segregation.

Latin Americans seek liberation from the oppression of economic exploitation, blacks from racism, feminists from sexism.

My hope is that victims of oppression, including Black Americans, Africans, women, American Indians, Mexican Americans, Hispanics, Latin Americans, Asian Americans, and others will begin to assume leadership in the quest for liberation.

To speak of sin as also involving Blacks or women was to fall into the sin of «blaming the victim»; there was a myth of presumed innocence for all but those involved in perpetrating or benefiting from the structures of oppression.

So you as a Christian are entitled to the belief that blacks are cursed by Cain and are an inferior species... even though such beliefs have lead to the oppression, enslavement, and slaughter of millions.

In her depiction of Janie's first two marriages, Hurston explores the role that sexism — especially a sexism that blindly mimics white values — plays in black women's oppression.

It meant, for example, that segregated and exploited Blacks were threatened even more by this assault of humanity on nature than by direct human oppression.

It is a shame, however, that the same churches that brought black Americans together to stand up for their Civil Rights often have a hard time coming to terms with the oppression of other minorities.

The enemy of the white south africans was not black south africans but rather the system of oppression the majority of whites supported and facilitated which made life intolerable for the blacks.

The enormity of America's history of oppression meant that the right of white people to expect any particular conduct from blacks, and the obligation of black people to comply with such expectations, were both severely attenuated.

Despite the officious black debate / rhetoric about how much freedom has been achieved, everyone knows that the overt and more intentional sorts of oppression that existed North and South have been defeated.

James Cone, the leading Black theologian, has gained a deep appreciation of the oppression of women and has found real solidarity with Third World theologians.

It is an affirmation of Black folks» contributions to this society, our humanity, and our resilience in the face of deadly oppression.

This principle may serve as a diagnostic category when working with the accumulative effects of black people's experience of oppression.

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By taking this approach to understanding social forces, a way may be open for developing a social ethic and pastoral praxis that recognizes the complex character of collective power in black people's experience of oppression.2 As McClendon has made clear, the idea of a «social ethic» must not stand alone.

My task is to proceed from a pastoral psychology perspective and to imply a working connection between black liberation and process theologies when black people's experience of oppression is the focus.

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Dr. Smith looks at process thought and black liberation from a pastoral psychology perspective and black people's experience of oppression: The struggle against oppression in black people's experience is a constant struggle against external forces as manifested in economic, social, and political exploitation.

Social forces hover behind all our conceptualizations and efforts to liberate blacks and others from the bonds of oppression.

In this book Cone declared that «Christ is black, baby,» that black power means «complete emancipation of black people from white oppression by whatever means black people deem necessary.»

For example, the problem of evil takes on peculiar poignancy when the evil in view is the century - long oppression of Blacks.

Where black churchmen were bound together across denominational lines by the spirit of justice which — though at times only timidly — opposed the oppression and dehumanization of others, white churchmen were united across those lines by a spirit of hatred for black people.

The revelation of God in the black church and in the lives and experience of black Christians has laid an obligation on black people: their task is to stand everywhere in the world as a Christian symbol of God's opposition to oppression.

Yet we can not expand the table at the expense of an incomplete accounting of the injustice of black slavery and oppression in America.

Blacks agreed to the importance of class and gender analysis of oppression.

Further, Black liberation theologians pointed out how little the Social Gospel dealt with the oppression of African - Americans.

Hearing from the black and third - world theologians of the cultural advantages and cultural oppressions wrought through our theologies underscores again the relativity of theological thought.