Not exact matches
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.
I'm actually glad about it because it gave
liberation theologians an opportunity to share about
liberation theology in a more public
way.
Liberation theology looks to the words of Jesus in Luke 4 where he describes his call to ministry (echoing the words of the ancient prophet Isaiah) and at the
ways that he included many of the outcast (women, Samaritans, tax collectors, etc.) in his ministry and parable.
Feminist
theology requires that we reflect on all that is dehumanizing and oppressive, everything that stands in the
way of the
liberation of all people.
Both McGovern and Sigmund, in different
ways, acknowledge the appropriateness of
liberation theology's critique of capitalism.
In challenging process
theology to state explicitly that God sides with the oppressed, and to do so in a
way that does not rule out the possibility of righteous counterviolence, I understand Jones to be challenging process
theology to explicate the social - ethical consequences of accepting certain metaphysical truths in order that black
theology might measure its ethical content against the needs of the struggle for
liberation.
Broadly conceived, black
theology asks not only about the metaphysical status of process
theology, but also, and more importantly, can process
theology illuminate social - political ethics in a
way that contributes favorably to the
liberation struggle?
Once considered exotic and fanciful,
liberation theologies now have a good chance of becoming the way ahead for theology in the next century — if only they can manage to be true both to the aspirations of the oppressed and to the reality of the beyond in their midst [«Third World Theology, Fourth World Liberation,
liberation theologies now have a good chance of becoming the
way ahead for
theology in the next century — if only they can manage to be true both to the aspirations of the oppressed and to the reality of the beyond in their midst [«Third World Theology, Fourth World Liberation,&r
theology in the next century — if only they can manage to be true both to the aspirations of the oppressed and to the reality of the beyond in their midst [«Third World
Theology, Fourth World Liberation,&r
Theology, Fourth World
Liberation,
Liberation,»...
«A
theology of
liberation», writes Gustavo Gutierrez, «offers us not so much a new theme for reflections as a new
way to do
theology».
They remind us that
liberation theology has never been a new
theology but rather a new
way of doing
theology — from the perspective of the poor and their struggle for justice and
liberation.
The struggle for the
liberation of Hispanic women is being carried out in many different
ways by many different mujeristas all around the U.S. Mujerista
theology is one of the voices of such a struggle — a struggle that is life for us because we have learned from our grandmothers and mothers that la vida es la lucha.
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.
Robert McAfee Brown, in an introduction to
Theology in the Americas (edited by Sergio Torres and John Eagleson [Orbis, 1976]-RRB-, suggests four ways in which the challenges of Latin American liberation theology can be
Theology in the Americas (edited by Sergio Torres and John Eagleson [Orbis, 1976]-RRB-, suggests four
ways in which the challenges of Latin American
liberation theology can be
theology can be evaded.
When this common goal is linked with the desire of Dalits and Adivasis to preserve their respective
ways of being in the world, the essence of
theology (resistance -
liberation) is engendered.
Once considered exotic and fanciful,
liberation theologies now have a good chance of becoming the way ahead for theology in the next century — if only they can manage to be true both to the aspirations of the oppressed and to the reality of the beyond in their midst [«Third World Theology, Fourth World Liberation,» The Christian Century, May 19, 197
liberation theologies now have a good chance of becoming the
way ahead for
theology in the next century — if only they can manage to be true both to the aspirations of the oppressed and to the reality of the beyond in their midst [«Third World Theology, Fourth World Liberation,» The Christian Century, May 19, 1976,
theology in the next century — if only they can manage to be true both to the aspirations of the oppressed and to the reality of the beyond in their midst [«Third World
Theology, Fourth World Liberation,» The Christian Century, May 19, 1976,
Theology, Fourth World
Liberation,» The Christian Century, May 19, 197
Liberation,» The Christian Century, May 19, 1976, P. 477]
Once considered exotic and fanciful,
liberation theologies now have a good chance of becoming the
way ahead for
theology in the next century.
Just as
liberation theologians have shown that human
liberation can not be considered simply as an additional topic tacked on to an otherwise unchanged
theology, so also changing the
way human beings relate to the natural world can not be simply an additional item on the already overcrowded agenda of the churches.
Though the curtain of secrecy is drawn over such meetings (one of the abuses that Boff had criticized in his writings), Boff emerged from the encounter smiling, believing that he had made the point that, when dealing with
liberation theology, the church ought to consult people directly involved in the struggle, rather than relying solely on European theologians who, as he told reporters, «look on poverty from the outside, from a position of security, in a paternalistic
way.»
Liberation theology, liberation movements in Central America and the rest of South America, South Africa, Asia, etc., «People's Power» in the Philippines, student protests and a democratic reform movement in South Korea, as well as the stubborn persistence of dissidents in the Soviet Union, and Solidarity in Poland all bear witness, in their various and fragmentary ways, to peoples» fundamental desire to belong and to participate effectively in the decisions that shape thei
Liberation theology,
liberation movements in Central America and the rest of South America, South Africa, Asia, etc., «People's Power» in the Philippines, student protests and a democratic reform movement in South Korea, as well as the stubborn persistence of dissidents in the Soviet Union, and Solidarity in Poland all bear witness, in their various and fragmentary ways, to peoples» fundamental desire to belong and to participate effectively in the decisions that shape thei
liberation movements in Central America and the rest of South America, South Africa, Asia, etc., «People's Power» in the Philippines, student protests and a democratic reform movement in South Korea, as well as the stubborn persistence of dissidents in the Soviet Union, and Solidarity in Poland all bear witness, in their various and fragmentary
ways, to peoples» fundamental desire to belong and to participate effectively in the decisions that shape their futures.