Whether in the south or in the country as a whole, we will not be able to understand what is going on unless we acknowledge the premise
of liberation theology in this regard.
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.
Although the German cultural setting has kept him from serious engagement with feminist theologians and other
representatives of liberation theology I would not be surprised to see him take those movements more seriously.
2 Moltmann, whom we will treat as a major example of «political theology», understands his own response to the
challenge of liberation theologies as also a liberation theology, this time for the oppressors.
Schubert Ogden has published Faith and Freedom, which he subtitles «Toward a theology of liberation».3 He describes the challenge
of liberation theologies as the call «to join them in working toward a still more adequate understanding of faith and freedom».4 To do so, he argues, we must distinguish without separating a double meaning in the idea of liberation.
The politicization of Christ and the possibility for political parties to hijack his role as messiah is due largely to the
impact of liberation theology on Latin America.
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.
Unfortunately, Turner and O'Donovan's essays evince the continuing ignorance
of liberation theology on the part of European and North American theologians.
J. Emmette Weir, for example, has cited Juan Luis Segundo's criticism of the social ineffectiveness of the Marxist concept of religion («The Bible and Marx», Scottish Journal of Theology, August 1982) and has also noted that current
exponents of liberation theology have shifted away from dependence on Marx -(«Liberation Theology Comes of Age,» Expository Times, October 1986).
His willingness to speak against this movement has not endeared him to some members of the American theological community, who have become increasingly
supportive of liberation theology and increasingly willing to use Marxist categories in criticizing social structures.
Writing from the perspective of Minjung theology — a
school of liberation theology specifically centered on the oppressed peoples of Korea — Noh reports inductively on the sorts of oppression that...
Writing from the perspective of Minjung theology — a school
of liberation theology specifically centered on the oppressed peoples of Korea — Noh reports inductively on the sorts of oppression that often arise from, or are validated by, what the Minjung theologians call division theologies.
The advocacy
scholarship of liberation theologies corresponds and contributes to the hermeneutical and dialectical shifts toward praxis now Occurring in what are called post-empiricist philosophies of science (BOR, TKH).
In Latin America where the present day
version of liberation theology originated, the oppressor and the oppressed are both by and large within the Roman Catholic fold.
For between these concluding lines, which crystallized the thrust of the entire book, can be detected what were to become the two basic
premises of liberation theology.
In this occasion my contribution will be to write an article on the
future of Liberation Theology in Latin American in view of the questioning and criticism of the past years.
All these debates reveal a deep concern for the freedom and liberation of the poor and the marginalized and are thus commonly referred to under the
rubric of liberation theology.
Shortly after that, the first
currents of liberation theology emerged in Latin America and the U.S., making neo-orthodoxy seem stuffy, provincial and oppressive.
Delwin Brown, likewise, has» listened deeply to the
call of liberation theology, seeking to elucidate the history of the notion of freedom which is now embodied in liberation thought and action.