But we have hardly begun to integrate what we are learning there with
what the liberation theologians are teaching us.
To prevent me from speaking, they stomped their feet in cadence and loudly sang the National Anthem of the Sandinistas, while waving placards proclaiming their solidarity with Nicaragua, as if the new society being built in Nicaragua after the overthrow of Somoza was a concrete example of
what liberation theologians were hoping to accomplish.
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.
This is, in part,
what liberation theologians of the Third World have been trying to tell us.
The first three sections of this paper have illustrated this, indicating the changes needed on the side of process theology as it responds to the truth of
what liberation theologians are saying.
Not exact matches
As such, Walker's central challenge to process thought becomes his own theological struggle for coherence in a metaphysical scheme that denies
what he affirms as fundamental to a black
liberation theologian, i.e., that the most inclusive concept of God is the God of the oppressed.
If it is the task of
liberation theology to speak from the point of view of the victims of social and economic injustice,
what is the appropriate response of those
theologians in the oppressor community who hear and want to support the aspirations of the oppressed?
But the question I am asking is how North American
theologians can appropriately respond when they acknowledge the truth, and the critical importance, of
what they hear from
liberation theologians.
But
what makes today's left so sure that economic justice and sexual
liberation coincide in the way, say, that truth, beauty, and goodness do in the schemes of
theologians?
Whether we find ourselves as
theologians in the camp of the oppressor or the oppressed,
what we have to interpret is a gospel of
liberation.
Again, in 1984, when Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, with the pope's approval, issued his critique of
liberation theology, most Latin American
theologians sidestepped it by saying that
what Ratzinger was describing was not
liberation theology but a caricature, and hence his criticisms did not apply to them or their colleagues.
Writing from the perspective of Minjung theology — a school of
liberation theology specifically centered on the oppressed peoples of Korea — Noh reports inductively on the sorts of oppression that often arise from, or are validated by,
what the Minjung
theologians call division theologies.
So
what will
liberation theologians have to contribute to the democratic project?
To reckon with Barth, then, is to encounter one whose theology later inspired
liberation theologians in Latin America and antiapartheid
theologians in South Africa — a
theologian who felt that
what you pray for, you must also work for.
To reckon with Barth is to encounter one whose theology later inspired
liberation theologians in Latin America and antiapartheid
theologians in South Africa — a
theologian who felt that
what you pray for, you must also work for.