Previous incidents include her academic paper
on black liberation theology that was interpreted by some to endorse a kind of Marxism, a Facebook photo showing her at a party on Halsted Street at the same time as Chicago's Pride Parade, and her suggestions that the college change some of its language about sexuality.
Not exact matches
In my view, once you start going down the WWJD Road, you're now
on the same road used by both Latin American and
Black Liberation Theology which takes Jesus out of context to justify socialism which in the United States is supported by progressive liberals.
He contrasts Wright with James Cone, the 1960s proponent of
black liberation theology who disparaged a focus
on Jesus as Saviour as «Christofascism», along with others who contend that
black folk should fnd their primary identity in race rather than religion.
Two such schools of thought have been North American process
theology based
on the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead and
liberation theology which originated in the struggles of Third World peoples for economic, political, and social independence but now has broadened to include the aspiration of minority groups (e.g., women and
blacks) even within affluent First World countries.
Three emergent theological movements —
black theology, feminist
theology, and
liberation theology from the Third World — challenge traditional ways of doing
theology on the grounds that Christian consciousness as it has been» given shape in the modern world is burdened with Western, liberal, male and white perceptions of reality.
Even though
black theologians were among the earliest exponents of
liberation theology, we are often excluded when panels and conferences are held
on the subject.
But my claim about the importance of race for
theology in America does not depend
on one being a
black liberation theologian.
Black liberation theology asks whose side should God be
on — the side of the oppressed or the side of the oppressors.
Having absorbed
liberation theologians, he moved
on to a specifically
black theology.