Sentences with phrase «of liberationist»

Many seminaries are open at least to some of the liberationist modes of postmodern theology.

The joint political and social ventures of the liberationist and socialist groups established an enduring link between the two.

But what of the liberationist, the democratic socialist and the other progressives who perceive King's accomplishments as small compared to their own achievements, and negligible in the light of America's need?

Without realizing what he is doing — or realizing but choosing not to acknowledge it — his critique of the liberationist project recapitulates one of the great critiques of the ages, Edmund Burke's writings on the French Revolution.

The flaws in Walzer's analysis of the liberationist project stem from his inclination to see religious and conservative countermovements as problems to be solved rather than as expressions of genuine and worthy human aspirations.

It is a veritable catalogue of liberationist cliches.

Any criticism of the liberationist program is perilous, for it can quickly put the critic in the uncomfortable position of seeming to favor the oppressor.

These communities are both the context of theological reflection and microcosms of the liberationists» vision for Latin America.

This not only exaggerates the influence of the liberationists on Latin American economic policy, it obscures the impact of five centuries of colonial / imperial domination....

Sigmund, who is strongly critical of liberationists» rejections of capitalism, also takes Novak to task for trusting to «the magic of the market» and for being «no more willing to engage in criticism of capitalism than liberation theologians are of socialism.»

I submit that their concern is not so much with the conservatives» possible manipulation of King's dream as with the difficulties that dream creates for the aspirations of the liberationists, democratic socialists and progressives.

One of the liberationists, Hugo Assmann, admitted this shortcoming, calling for a «transition to democracy»» a movement beyond face - to - face democracy to the public and formal democracy of parties and institutions.

Jesus in Global Contexts by Priscilla Pope - Levison and John R. Levison Westminster / John Knox Press, 232 pages, $ 17.99 A husband and wife team offers a once - over-lightly survey of liberationists, feminists, and others who «do Christology» by construing Jesus according to cultural context.

Not exact matches

And of course Marxian analysis took on renewed life» if, most often, in crudely vulgar forms» in the various liberationist struggles of the 1960s and 1970s, most notably in the anti-Vietnam War movement.

Even Sullivan's chapter on «The Liberationists» does not include those we have come to associate with that term (the strident gay - rights activists or flamboyant gay liberationists) but focuses instead on a ragtag group of theoreticians influenced by FrenLiberationists» does not include those we have come to associate with that term (the strident gay - rights activists or flamboyant gay liberationists) but focuses instead on a ragtag group of theoreticians influenced by Frenliberationists) but focuses instead on a ragtag group of theoreticians influenced by French philosophy.

The argument was made according to a classic liberationist reading of the scriptural mandate.

The liberationist would see the church's vocation as one of delivering people from the contexts that foster crime and drug use.

Thus liberationist spokespeople are left to issue prophetic calls necessarily devoid of the practical guidelines their commitment to political change would entail.

Nothing could be said, for within a liberationist understanding of God's will there is little room for considering how, short of overturning society at large, Christians should respond to particular social problems.

In fact, a liberationist outlook obscures rather than clarifies the practical imperatives of Christian ministry within the U.S.

Articles and teaching sessions are devoted to social scandals like the increase in hunger, poverty, homelessness and illiteracy in the U.S. Likewise, issues surrounding U.S. foreign policy, aid and grotesque military appropriations are frequently critiqued on behalf of a foreseen new social order that will be founded on liberationist principles.

It will learn something from what liberationists, women, and others have said, but it will incorporate only what can be assimilated into the mainstream of a relatively unchanged tradition.

Indeed, the animal rights movement's fury against the speciesist use of animals» a necessary element for human flourishing, particularly in medical research» has increased to the point that scientists are now under threat of death by the most radical liberationists for daring to experiment on rats or monkeys to find cures for cancer and other human afflictions.

Along the way, she counters the restricted rationalism of analytic philosophy and the utopianism of sundry liberationist proposals for «fixing» the world.

First, as the title of a key chapter puts it, the American example shows that religion can «Make Use of Democratic Instincts» in a manner mutually beneficial to itself and democracy; second, sustainable democracy needs religion, which means we can expect democratic peoples to remain attached to its continuance or at least potentially receptive to its revival (cf. II, 2.17, # s 17 - 20); third, democratic times, because they are enlightened times, tend to be ones of increasing doubts about religion; fourth, the relevant religion for America and Europe, Christianity, will be tugged against and perhaps eroded by powerful and ongoing democratic currents toward liberationist and materialist mores; and fifth, religion's authority in democratic society will always rest upon common opinion.

The potential leadership of at least the persuaders among the Christian R&D professionals is problematic, considering the weight of empirical evidence accumulated against liberationist diagnoses and prescriptions for the Third World's woes.

Any radically monotheistic understanding of the reality of God (whether classical, process, liberationist or liberal) affirms the strict universality of the divine reality.

Overall, the entire field of Christian social ethics — liberationist or not — pays scandalously little attention to empirical data and social science, as when Karen Lebacqz cites the Hite Report as though it were a statistically representative sample of sexual attitudes and behaviors, or when Michael Novak draws simplistic comparisons between Japanese and Latin American political economies.

Through these criticisms, Troeltsch can provide us with a needed sense of perspective on the liberationist project.

Liberationists initially took it as just one more instance of comfortable members of the white male establishment indulging their intellectual interests in a profoundly oppressive world.

The willful blindness Eberstadt condemns in liberationists and Marxist professors, therefore, is not so bad as that of the pro-life journals.

It's extremely likely that the only significant, ongoing dissent to sexual liberationist orthodoxy will come from religious people and the institutions they run for the sake of living out their faith.»

These are churches gathered around issues of common concern; the project is reminiscent of the house - church emphasis, but it is done from a liberationist perspective.

I was a leftist, a liberal, a liberationist, yet here was a story that portrayed liberalism, in the form of the Harvard professor Henry Rutledge, as moral disorder, and leftist liberationism, in the professor's students — one a black activist, one a Jesuit — as a posturing sham.

The liberationist hermeneutic draws upon Scripture to support the current struggle of the dispossessed for justice and liberty.

A liberationist approach to eschatology includes the empowerment of oppressed persons to take charge of their own lives.

Such liberationist collaboration is already beginning to emerge among the various types of liberation theologies.

But to recognize that precursor would have posed an awkward question for Walzer: Are the liberationist project's flaws merely a matter of means and attitude, or are they also rooted in its conception of human nature, its principles, and its goals?

There is a mounting insistence among women (including many who reject the methods of militant liberationists) that they be treated as full human beings, with freedom to choose and to develop their personal gifts and abilities.

Presumably he means by this that it is for the Greens to think through the relation of the contributions of deep ecology to those of social, political, and economic analysis, feminists, and liberationists.

Would you not concede to the thesis that effective liberationist impulses, as different from those which sought to mitigate the plight of the poverty - stricken and outcastes were stirred and given an institutional framework by Marxist movement especially in Kerala which has the largest Christian population in the country?

Christ opening himself up to the «least of these» and identifying with them was, for many liberationists, the act of self - sacrifice that fulfilled the historical Jesus's indwelling by God the Father.

It should be pointed out, though, that nothing in the social - constructivist position legitimates the denial of rights... Assertive gay liberationists have argued that it may be strategically wiser to concede the possibility that a few students might be influenced to become gay by having an openly gay teacher as a role model, and to say, «So what?»

14 / Liberationists might see a dictatorship as very much of the Devil — and so separate themselves radically.

Instead of being guided only by the needs of a particular oppressed group a liberationist may seek to help the church as a whole find the appropriate response to the recognition of its role in that oppression.

Among them are liberal and conservative Roman Catholics, some Southern Baptists, some evangelicals, some Presbyterians, some Mennonites, some Calvinists, some Episcopalians, some Lutherans (not many), some from the Church of the Servant King (Gardenia, California), some liberal Protestants, some feminists and some liberationists.

If the liberationist «analysis» of poverty and oppression in Latin America can no longer be credited, what political hope for the future has been bequeathed to the poor by liberation theology?

The Reformation and Liberation Theology: Insights for the Challenge of Today by Richard Shaull Westminster, 144 pages, $ 11.95 A veteran liberationist of Princeton Theological Seminary contends that the sundry Protestant reformations demand and make possible a radically new social order.

By all reports, pessimism and near - despair grip liberationists today, who see on the horizon very little indeed that offers hope of a better life to the poor of Latin America.

That is, he set a course that would not compromise democracy for the sake of socialism — a position that set him apart from assorted domestic political sectarians and especially from the Marxist - Leninist establishments and ideological Liberationists who, until recently, commanded the rhetoric as well as the policies in Eastern Europe and the Third World.