Instead, it is a socio -
political liberation from the historical impacts of sin in the temporal world.
Not exact matches
Where sin, death, and the devil are no longer the bondage in question and where fear of God's judgment has been diluted or dissipated into
political correctness, then justification becomes
liberation from anything that anyone experiences as bondage.
No to Privatization «red in tooth and claw»; yes to Public Sector without
political corruption; no to Liberalization, with market exploitation; yes to
Liberation from exploitative coercion; no to globalization as domination of world market with deprivation of the developmental directive of «Small is Beautiful»; yes to Universalism in sharing and caring for the suffering humanity and Good Samaritan ethic - these should be evolved and situated in Third World conditions and perspectives.
From Brian:
Liberation Theology is often criticized as reframing the gospel as a social /
political agenda at the expense of the message of forgiveness of sins through Jesus.
’42 Indeed, women
from all three continents, Africa, Asia and Latin America, say that «In the person and praxis of Jesus Christ, women of the three continents find the grounds of our
liberation from all discrimination: sexual, racial, social, economic,
political and religious... Christology is integrally linked with action on behalf of social justice and the defense of each person's right to life and to a more humane life.43 This means that Christology is about apartheid, sexual exploitation, poverty and oppression.
For instance, in its first years,
liberation theology was conceived as (second - order) reflection and discourse based on a (first - order) praxis of
liberation from oppression, especially
from social, economic and
political injustice.
Therefore, the entreaty of Latin America is for
liberation from cultural domination, economic exploitation, military regression, social marginalization and
political imperialism; it is an appeal for fairness in international trade and the establishment of a social order that promotes human dignity, respects democratic institutions and guarantees an equitable distribution of wealth.
The
liberation viewpoint stressed pulling control over the natural resources of poor countries out
from under Western power so that the developmental process could continue under autonomous, socialist
political systems.
In these stories, disasters resulting
from technological or
political threats generate a social order that fails to deliver
liberation of the individual.
By the end of the Assembly, as Kenneth Slack pointed out, «most of the members felt that there was more danger
from undue stress on the evangelism of individuals than the other way round, despite widely expressed anxiety, given expression by Stott, that
liberation in
political, social and economic sense was in danger of replacing salvation
from sin at the heart of the redeeming gospel».73 There was no doubt that, despite the narrowing of the range of disagreements, important differences continued, especially with regard to the meaning of salvation and the program of dialogue with people of other faiths.
«Reality», for Panikkar, is the wholeness of Being that is constituted through God, Man and World, not the empirical reality which is of merely provisional character — as is maya in advaita - vedanta.60 Probably under pressure
from the impact of
Liberation Theology in the USA where Panikkar was teaching at the time, he had to face the issue of the
political dimension of his theology and has reacted to it repeatedly in prefaces to his publications.
Liberation theology is conducted in a hermeneutical circle which can be entered only in an act of solidarity with the oppressed of the world, an act of such immediacy and commitment that it circumvents the danger of ideological bias normally inherent in political choices.2 From this hermeneutically privileged standpoint, liberation theology proceeds to a social scientific analysis of the situation, which is intended to uncover the structures of oppression and the extensive ideological biases both of the oppressors and of their attendant t
Liberation theology is conducted in a hermeneutical circle which can be entered only in an act of solidarity with the oppressed of the world, an act of such immediacy and commitment that it circumvents the danger of ideological bias normally inherent in
political choices.2
From this hermeneutically privileged standpoint,
liberation theology proceeds to a social scientific analysis of the situation, which is intended to uncover the structures of oppression and the extensive ideological biases both of the oppressors and of their attendant t
liberation theology proceeds to a social scientific analysis of the situation, which is intended to uncover the structures of oppression and the extensive ideological biases both of the oppressors and of their attendant theologies.
For example, deliverance in the charismatic sense of deliverance
from demons can easily be linked to
political or social
liberation, and the two words are of course close cognates in some languages.
It is, of course, central to the story of the Exodus, which is about
liberation from economic and
political injustice, as well as about religious
liberation.
The resources of religion and culture can not be separated
from the minorities» social, economic, and
political activity of resistance -
liberation.
Castro for his part clearly recognized the
political gain in an alliance between
liberation theology and Marxist revolution: «
From a strictly
political point of view» and I think I know something about politics» I believe that it is possible for Christians to be Marxists as well, and to work with Marxist Communists to transform the world.»
, If and to the degree that the democratic movement means the abolition of privilege and the establishment of
political human rights, democracy is the symbol for the
liberation of men
from the vicious circle of force.
Dr. Smith looks at process thought and black
liberation from a pastoral psychology perspective and black people's experience of oppression: The struggle against oppression in black people's experience is a constant struggle against external forces as manifested in economic, social, and
political exploitation.
In the
political dimension of life,
liberation from the vicious circle of oppression also means democracy.
His steady movement into
political theology is explicit in his writings of the past few years.5 Schubert Ogden and Delwin Brown are likewise deeply involved with issues of
liberation theology.6 Ogden probes the distinction between witness and theology, inquiring into the theology of freedom which undergirds and springs
from the witness to
liberation.
From a
political standpoint, some pivot of the Christian rebirth to wrap themselves in the ideology of
liberation theology and the like.
Emancipation - the fact or process of being set free
from legal, social, or
political restrictions;
liberation.
The gesture on the canvas was a gesture of
liberation from value —
political, aesthetic, moral.»
Enwezor and his curatorial team of Mark Nash, Co-Curator, Film; Rory Bester, Associate Curator; Lauri Firstenberg, Associate Curator; and Chika Okeke, Associate Curator, investigated a variety of sources to document European domination
from 1885 — 1945, the development of
political and cultural consciousness
from the mid-1940s through the 1950s, the decade of independence
from 1960 - 1970, and
liberation movements in African nations.
Using her body to examine the role of female sensuality in connection to the possibilities of
political and personal
liberation from predominantly oppressive social and aesthetic conventions, Carolee Schneemann is regarded in art history as a pioneer of performance art.
Shonibare draws on surrealism as both an artistic and
political movement aimed at the
liberation of the human being
from the constraints of capitalism, the state, and the cultural forces that limit the reign of the imagination.
Anchored by recent gifts
from Gund Gallery Board Member David Horvitz «74 and his wife Francie Bishop Good to the Gund Gallery Collection, this Gund Associate (intern)- curated exhibition offers a gendered lens through which to view 20th century civil rights activism so that we may better understand the roots and the aspirations of the
political consciousness generated by Black
liberation art, ephemera and digital culture today.
Tracing the trajectory of Zimbabwe's social and
political changes, the exhibition references different ideological influences that informed the
Liberation Movement,
from the seeds of Pan-Africanism, the American Civil Rights and Black Power Movements, Nationalism, and Communism.
A quotation
from General Vo Nguyen Giap of the Vietnamese National
Liberation Front describing the double - bind of combat strategy, the glowing letters provide a visual tension to the cracking clay exterior, while highlighting the artist's fascination with social mores — in this case, military and
political custom.
Anachronism and
Liberation presents nine artists, ranging
from emerging to established, creating work that engages with social and / or
political issues in subtle and surprising ways.
Song Xinping
from Xi'an
Political Academy of the People's
Liberation Army of China gave a presentation providing his «personal views» on killer robots that listed the «shortcomings» of international humanitarian law and described the «legislative paths» available to the international community on this topic.