Sentences with phrase «of liberation theology»

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.
I will discuss the influence of liberation theology in the next article.
What aspects of liberation theology still seem relevant to you?
The second stream of theological reflection is the explosive emergence of liberation theology, whether of class (the poor).
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.
The two most important expressions of liberation theology to emerge from the American experience in the late 1960s are black theology and feminist theology.
At times, as in the social gospel and in much of liberation theology, the salvation of society is given primary importance.
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.
It illustrates that the stories of liberation theology are local and often intensely personal.
I would speak here of a convergence of liberation theology and process theology.
The protest of liberation theology has grown out of participation in the experience of having development forced upon a people.
A second reason for engaging political theology instead of liberation theology can also be briefly explained.
How would you summarize the message of liberation theology to someone from an evangelical background?
In brief, the collapse of the socialist idea has deeply endangered the project of liberation theology.
The second wave of liberation theology that struck us was feminist.
One could begin to speak meaningful of liberation theology in general as well as of its specific forms.
Once the idea of liberation theology was established, it became clear that it could take, even needed to take, many more forms.
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.
There are several kinds of liberation theology developing in the U.S. at present.
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.
One characteristic of the liberation theology effort is that it is hammered out in oral communication.
Justo L. Gonzalez, ed., Proclaiming the Acceptable Year: Sermons from the Perspective of Liberation Theology (Valley Forge: Judson Press, 1982).
Proponents of liberation theology who major in bashing the American gringos are having a hard time with «Just Cause,» the U.S. intervention in Panama.
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.
In this connection he speaks of the significance of the Liberation Theology movements in all religions and notes the significance of the radical religious movements.
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.
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