Sentences with phrase «own social location»

Simply, it's about asking questions that help us understand if budget priorities, tax structures, and government programs maintain or worsen inequality, or if they help «level the playing field» for people occupying different social locations.

This score, Jones suggests, is in keeping with the social location of process theology's advocates.

This matter of social location can be taken as simply accidental.

When white, middle class, North American process theologians consider our social location seriously and adapt our theology to the understanding that results, North Atlantic process theology as a whole can become complementary to liberation theology.

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.

Hence, insofar as our social location has led us to neglect the needs of the poor and the oppressed, we can only repent.

My point here is that we need to take our social location very seriously, to be suspicious of ourselves, and to work constantly to correct for the bias that our location introduces.

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

That most theologians, even those whose social location in the white North American middle class, verbally support efforts to achieve the changes needed in our society to make some minimum of justice possible elsewhere, such as in Latin America, is already a testimony to the power of the gospel.

But when all exceptions have been noted, the fact remains that the determinative social location of process theology as a style of thought has been the white, middle class university or seminary, chiefly in North America.

Until these external pressures became strong, our social location in the departmentalized university had more effect upon our way of working than did the conceptual models with which we worked!

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.

In the social location of all North Americans, issues of race, also, will rightly play a larger role than they have played thus far among Latin Americans.

His concern with the social location of poverty is part of his larger effort to understand the character of Christianity as it negotiated its place in a still durable classical culture.

The persons being formed are fully as concrete, as deeply particularized by history, by social location, by being bodies as is this school.

We are prone to be over-determined by circumstances, social location and identities that are secularly constructed and never able to give a full account of who we are as imago dei or an account of the journey of faith we are traveling.

The church flourished, membership grew, the missionary enterprise exploded, and the denomination's social location was transferred to the middle class.

The more pluralized the student body becomes in regard to age, previous experience, earlier education, sex, race, social location, and vocational self - understanding, the less workable is a single, prescribed sequence of courses.

Not the posture of value - detachment and apolitical objectivism but the articulation of one's social location, interpretive strategies and theoretical frameworks are appropriate in such a rhetorical paradigm of theological studies.

The second insight is that I must remain faithful to my own experience, even though I know this experience to be relativized by my historical and social location.

Moreover, objectivity does not rule thought; human imagination, valuation and social location govern how we identify and classify things — and thus, how we construct contexts for comparison.

Secondly I argue that the New Testament's seeing Jesus as example is a necessary correlate of what later theology calls his divine sonship (the other side of the «incarnation»), in such a way that those who downgrade the weight of Jesus» example, on the grounds that his particular social location or example can not be a norm, renew a counterpart of the old «Ebionitic» heresy.

Such an attempt to displace the feminist theological Exodus alternative requires a concept of patriarchy that can take into account women's different social locations.

Zaret identifies three types of variables that probably have general relevance to the consideration of audiences: (1) social - structural variables that concern the size, social location, and access to material resources of a potential audience; (2) technical variables that specify some medium by which ideas can be communicated to this audience; and (3) cultural variables that deal with the general symbolic or mental capacities that the audience has at its disposal for processing the ideas to which it is exposed.

This is not to deny the importance of social ties and social locations (were I to do so, I would have to resign my commission as a sociologist).

The topics that have interested us and the way we have treated them can only be understood in terms of our social location, and this is one of being oppressors.

While refusing to accept a version of the sociology of knowledge that would lead to doctrinal relativism, the new evangelicals acknowledge the inevitable influence of social location on theologians» endeavors.

Of course, we tend to get so wrapped up in our little corner of the world and our social location that we get oblivious to those who do not share that corner of the world and social location.

Further, one's social location is a critical factor in this inheritance, since one's incorporation of the past is perspectival, rooted in particularity.

It was appropriate, then, for early 20th - century Social Gospel theologians like Walter Rauschenbusch to observe how prejudice and social discrimination are passed from one generation to the next, and it is consistent for theologians today to incorporate observations about social inheritance — what liberation theologians and feminist theologians call «social location» or «systemic evil» — into our understanding of the human condition.

The writer's social location is important to the analysis that follows.

Jesus preferred to move on the margins of society, but he is able to appear in every social location.

We tend to get so wrapped in our little corner of the world and our social location that we get oblivious to those who do not share that corner of the world and social location.

The tension exists between texts with different social locations.

Although we will always be influenced by our social location, we are not fated to be imprisoned by it.

Liberation theology has helped us understand the importance of social location.

Social location is a fact about the preacher's existence.

Biblical scholars think of this as their «social location» and are careful to be aware of how it affects their interpretation.

Social location is not just fate but also choice.

This «passage» is effected, not directly through the finite actual entity's objective prehension of the ongoing integration between the primordial and consequent natures within God, but indirectly through the transmission of feeling from God to that same actual entity about its social location within the cosmic process and its possibilities for self - constitution as a result.

«Social location» — your own life context — is not something to be denied or eliminated, but rather to be acknowledged and consciously brought into the interpretation process.

It constitutes a community, which has a historical and a social location.

In terms of the concerns emphasized in Section I, they are affected by gender, race, social location, and a particular history of ideas.

Black theologians were the first to point out how radically social location determined the topics discussed and the ways they were discussed, and excluded the perspectives of the oppressed.

A postmodern theology must arise out of the Christian experience and insight of people from many cultures and diverse social locations within those cultures.

The social location of the man looms larger in the narrative than we may at first recognize.

We could repent and seek to be more aware of our social location and its tendency to distort our perceptions and misdirect our energies.

Such an account, however, does show a particular social location of its inception, at Yale — a place where I taught for 17 years.

We learned the importance of understanding the social location in which ideas arose, the uses that have been made of them, and what is actually heard in words, whether consciously intended or not.

Theological education will be adequate to the irreducible pluralism of modes of experiences of God if it includes within the school itself a pluralism of modes of experience of God that are genuinely «other» by reason of different ethnic, sexual, racial, and social locations.