Sentences with phrase «of liberation theologians»

But in the case of liberation theologians, this is not obviously the case.

But one still looks in vain among the writings of liberation theologians to find discussions of the indispensable institutions of democratic (republican) government, such as guarantees of rights of minorities against the tyranny of the majority or divisions of responsibilities and functions that avoid dangerous concentrations of power.

The willful blindness of the liberation theologians, their unwillingness to search in the world of social theory beyond the lucubrations of socialism, has had very high costs for the poor during these past twenty years.

The book analyzes the move of some liberation theologians, notably Gustavo Gutierrez of Peru, away from Marxist ideology, even before the Revolution of 1989 consigned Marxism to the dustbin of history with such rude decisiveness.

Although Pope John Paul II has made clear his disagreement with the revolutionary approach of liberation theologians, Catholic social teaching is more radical than the popular opinion of the present Pope, based on his views about birth control and sexual morality, might suggest.

Elsewhere I have attempted to spell out in greater detail these developments in contemporary philosophical reflections on the praxis of reason in sciences and scholarly disciplines, indicating how they support the intellectual performance of liberation theologians (TW 103 - 47).

Ratzinger's position in the Curia makes it clear that he is not simply speaking for himself, but in the name of the Vatican, which has been carrying on an undercover investigation of liberation theologians.

Kappen, Liberation theology and Marxism, «There are a number of liberation theologians who employ Marxian methodology and terminology in their writings.

We often overlook the fact that Africa and Asia are producing an impressive cadre of liberation theologians who deserve an...

We often overlook the fact that Africa and Asia are producing an impressive cadre of liberation theologians who deserve an equally wide hearing as they reflect their own indigenous situation.

Process theologians can hardly read the writings of liberation theologians without being pleased to see that many of their emphases are highly congenial.

There is nothing in the social location of liberation theologians to prevent this.

The church of the liberation theologians: José Míguez Bonino, Juan Segundo, Gustavo Gutiérrez and the rest — the church of the poor and the dispossessed.

His 1948 book was indeed moderate by comparison with the enthusiastic Marxism of the liberation theologians who were to come.

Yet Benedict was suspicious of liberation theologians because some aligned themselves with political movements that sought to overthrow repressive governments in Latin America, other historians say.

Not exact matches

Novak leaves the reader with the impression that Latin America's devastating poverty is the result of the «misbegotten form of social analysis» employed by the liberation theologians.

As such, Walker's central challenge to process thought becomes his own theological struggle for coherence in a metaphysical scheme that denies what he affirms as fundamental to a black liberation theologian, i.e., that the most inclusive concept of God is the God of the oppressed.

The theology of the fourth church is, of course, being formulated by the liberation theologians of the southern continent — José Míguez Bonino, Juan Segundo.

Walker's efforts are based on his belief that Hartshorne's principles are entirely consistent with the agenda of black and liberation theologians.

Walker's vision as an African American liberation theologian gives his essay its strength, and tears asunder his harmonious vision of Hartshornean idealism.

Under the influence of the recent varieties of liberation theologies we are learning to appreciate this way of theologizing, and some of the more creative work in the interpretation of Wesley and the Wesleyan tradition has drawn on correlations of theological method with the liberation theologians.

Collaborative and complementary work by process theologians and liberation theologians can contribute to the realization of South American Indian social justice.

If it is the task of liberation theology to speak from the point of view of the victims of social and economic injustice, what is the appropriate response of those theologians in the oppressor community who hear and want to support the aspirations of the oppressed?

Occasionally liberation theologians suggest that injustice is a function of capitalism and would be overcome more or less automatically in a socialist society.

The liberation theologian does not first work out questions of the nature of God and Christ and the church in one context, such as that of the academic community, and then apply these answers to the social situation.

It may be even more difficult for liberation theologians to admit that there are values in the perspective of the oppressor when they see so clearly the marks of interest in the structures of society the oppressor has organized and in the ideology by which these are justified.

The question now is whether there is any point of contact on the side of liberation theology for the concerns of process theologians in areas to which liberation theologians have paid less attention.

One point of contact between process theology and liberation theology depends on repentance on the part of process theologians.

I see no problem for one whose social location is close to the poor to be a liberation theologian who appropriates the basic categories of process thought.

Even in Latin America we suspect that there is an indigenous perspective that comes closer to ours than to that of many liberation theologians.

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.

But the question I am asking is how North American theologians can appropriately respond when they acknowledge the truth, and the critical importance, of what they hear from liberation theologians.

The insistence on the value of other creatures seems to many liberation theologians to be an effort to impose on poor people unnecessary limits to the way they go about meeting their urgent needs.

Whatever is said in justification of the practice of process theologians in the past, however, it must also be recognized that in the encounter with liberation theologians we are called to repent.

I believe there is, and I think that liberation theologians are becoming aware of this.

There is little doubt that the concern for cultures and religions expresses the middle class social location of most process theologians, whereas the focus on political and economic issues and the concomitant demand for justice express the identification with the poor that is the glory of liberation theology.

Throughout, he interacts appreciatively with the theologians of hope and liberation, especially Jurgen Moltmann and the Latin American liberation theologians.

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.

Feminist and liberation theologians have questioned the new orthodoxy's valorization of divine helplessness, expressing concern over whether the emphasis on God sharing our abuse and death may underwrite our own passive acquiescence to violence.

But what makes today's left so sure that economic justice and sexual liberation coincide in the way, say, that truth, beauty, and goodness do in the schemes of theologians?

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This is at odds with the teaching of liberation theology, where you had black theologians like Dr. James Cone who wrote that the gospel is essentially for the oppressed and not the oppressor.

This has happened especially among Latin American liberation theologians, who have worked out the full gamut of Christian doctrines in a way that can lay claim to being a continuation and transformation of the whole tradition.

This failure can be illustrated with the same example, for although Marxists on the whole have been less sexist in their attitudes than have psychoanalysts, they appear only a little less deficient when viewed in the light of contemporary feminist consciousness.37 Or, again, use of Marxist sociology by Latin American theologians of liberation has done little to free them from implicit anti-Judaism in their theological formulations.

For liberation theologians, speaking out on behalf of the disempowered is Christ - like.

There are some liberation theologians who consider reconciliation between oppressed and oppressor («forgiveness of sins») to be part of a vision of liberation.

But the timing of this question is ironic because process theologian John Cobb just wrote about how process and liberation theology intersect here.

For female theologians from Africa, Asia and Latin America, Jesus, besides identifying with the poor, is a model of true humanity who can inspire others to struggle for liberation.

In contrast, traditional Catholic churches serve vast numbers of people who have little or nothing in common, and they are often impersonal «supermarkets for the sacraments,» as some liberation theologians call them.