He visited countries in the Middle East, Africa and Europe, where he explained the black struggle for justice in the U.S. and linked
it with liberation struggles throughout the world.
Not exact matches
Melbourne focused on the identification of Christianity
with the poor and marginalized of the world in their
struggle for
liberation and justice.
There, Christians must involve themselves in the
struggle for
liberation in the economic and political arena and ally themselves
with others in that
struggle.
In many respects Bonhoeffer's main contribution in South Africa has been his challenge to those of us there who are socially privileged and academically trained, as he was, and therefore numbered among an elite minority — even if we have sought to be in solidarity
with those who
struggled for
liberation and attempted to identify
with the victims of apartheid.
Yet in doing so they are left
with no foundation for moral knowledge, and must get by
with notions of
liberation,
struggle, and propaganda.
For female theologians from Africa, Asia and Latin America, Jesus, besides identifying
with the poor, is a model of true humanity who can inspire others to
struggle for
liberation.
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.
Thus Vincent Harding, Kwame Ture, Winnie Mandela, and many others have spoken in accordance
with the philosophy of black power in maintaining that where there is oppression, there will also be some form of protest and
struggle for
liberation.
In order for his appeal to be successful Douglass knew he would have to reconcile a certain pious regard for the well - being of slave owners
with supporting the slaves»
struggle for
liberation.
To choose organized religion as a site of
struggle for
liberation presupposes a sense of ecclesial ownership as well as repentance of complicity
with patriarchal religion.
Meanwhile,
liberation theologians have protested that postliberal theology is more concerned
with Christian catechesis, formation and liturgy than
with the
struggle for social justice.
Liberation theology to a large extent agrees
with Marxist analysis in its identification
with the oppressed in the
struggle against the oppressor.
And we must
struggle with the idea that this God of
liberation is slow to be moved by injustice, for instance, when the Israelites are enslaved by the Egyptians.»
Instead it is reduced to an aid in understanding either the unfolding cosmic drama (as
with process thought) or the class
struggle of history (as
with liberation theology).
In other words, they saw clearly that along
with the
struggle for justice for the industrial working class, we must simultaneously go forward
with the
liberation of dalits, tribals and women if we have to realize an Indian socialism.
But in our context today where millions of people are in hunger and live in sub-human conditions on account of the unjust socioeconomic and political structures of our country, faith in Jesus Christ would mean to identify ourselves
with the
struggles of the poor and the oppressed for justice and
liberation.
A theology of
liberation can emerge only in and
with the
struggle of the people.
The sexual
liberation of women can also be correlated
with their
struggle for political freedom and social equality.
The explicit reference to Jesus Christ becomes in this view gratuitous in the original sense of the word — something which is not demanded by or needed for the
struggle [of socioeconomic
liberation]... The reference to Jesus Christ does not add an «extra» to the historical
struggle but is totally and without rest identified
with it.
Women are prepared to enter in this way to
struggle in solidarity
with other women and
with the men for their
liberation.
He exhorted that those who believe in God should join forces
with all those who
struggle for justice because
liberation from bondage is a common concern of humanity irrespective of religion or ideology.
The report deals
with the subject: The Kingdom of God and Human
Struggles, under five areas of concern: The Kingdom of God and the struggles of people in countries searching for liberation and self - determination; The Kingdom of God and the struggles for human rights; The Kingdom of God in contexts of strong revival of institutional religions; The Kingdom of God in the context of centrally planned economics; and The Kingdom of God in the struggles of countries dominated by consumerism and the growth of bi
Struggles, under five areas of concern: The Kingdom of God and the
struggles of people in countries searching for liberation and self - determination; The Kingdom of God and the struggles for human rights; The Kingdom of God in contexts of strong revival of institutional religions; The Kingdom of God in the context of centrally planned economics; and The Kingdom of God in the struggles of countries dominated by consumerism and the growth of bi
struggles of people in countries searching for
liberation and self - determination; The Kingdom of God and the
struggles for human rights; The Kingdom of God in contexts of strong revival of institutional religions; The Kingdom of God in the context of centrally planned economics; and The Kingdom of God in the struggles of countries dominated by consumerism and the growth of bi
struggles for human rights; The Kingdom of God in contexts of strong revival of institutional religions; The Kingdom of God in the context of centrally planned economics; and The Kingdom of God in the
struggles of countries dominated by consumerism and the growth of bi
struggles of countries dominated by consumerism and the growth of big cities.
By Jesus, and in His name, the powers of the Kingdom bring
liberation and wholeness, dignity and life both to those who hunger after justice, and to those who
struggle with consumerism, greed, selfishness and death.
Many
liberation theologians, agreeing to this point
with political theologians, conclude that the church must take sides in political
struggles.
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.»
With Theodore Walker, we are encouraged to see that the
struggle against oppression is a constant
struggle for
liberation.
Currently the most influential version, of course, is associated
with movements shaped by
liberation theologies: We come to understand God as we are a part of a community that is united by a common history of oppression and
struggles for
liberation by radically changing the arrangements of economic and social power that have made the oppression systemic in our society.
The spirituality of integrating
liberation struggles to build strength together
with conviction and power will involve:
Walker's womanist reality begins
with mothers relating to their children and is characterized by black women (not necessarily bearers of children) nurturing great numbers of black people in the
liberation struggle (e.g., Harriet Tubman).
In our context today where millions of people are in hunger and live in sub-human conditions on account of the unjust socioeconomic and political strictures of our country (India), Polycarp's faith in Jesus Christ challenges us to identify ourselves
with the
struggles of the poor and the oppressed for justice and
liberation.
Parts of the statement read thus: «As we get prepared for the challenges ahead 2017, We make bold to tell the people of our Niger Delta, sane minds in Nigeria and the comity of nations that the remaining 11 months and couples of weeks in 2017 will be filled
with surprises and a reconfiguration of the
struggle for the
liberation of our motherland.
The erstwhile National Democratic Congress (NDC) government
with the approval of Parliament declared Dr. Kwame Nkrumah's birthday, 21st September as a statutory public holiday; thus Founder's Day, to recognize Nkrumah for his tremendous contribution towards the independence of Ghana and
Liberation struggle for the entire African continent.
Theologian James Cone, who as a founder of black
liberation theology linked Christian faith
with the
struggle against racism and oppression, died April 28, 2018.
What we need, according to Richard Kahn, Sam Fassbinder and Anthony Nocella, is a critical intervention by visionary educational leaders who are willing to going together
with social movements, in order to transfigure the relationship between the school and the society as part of a larger
struggle for
liberation.
Orfila highlighted the
struggles his generation faces and those in his own life, praising the role that transfer schools play to help students cope
with those
struggles: «
Liberation never will be just a school to any of the students that attend.
This exquisitely written novel is a triumph of storytelling that looks
with unswerving eyes at a devastating wound in American history, through women whose
struggles for
liberation, empowerment, and expression will leave no reader unmoved.
This work is brought into close dialogue
with the evolving politics of its day, in particular the Civil Rights
struggle and the Black
Liberation movement — specifically, photographs from 3 May 1963 when the authorities turned police dogs and fire hoses on black protestors in Birmingham, Alabama, and powerful imagery relating to The Black Panther Party, in particular its charismatic leader, Huey P. Newton.
From Bourgeois's formative
struggle with the «father figures» of surrealism, including Andre Breton and Marcel Duchamp, to her galvanizing role in the feminist art movement of the 1970s, to her subsequent emergence as a leading voice in postmodernism, this book explores the artist's responses to war, dislocation, and motherhood, to the predicament of the «woman artist» and the politics of sexual and social
liberation, as a dialogue
with psychoanalysis.
Fraser's performance Men on the Line is based on a 1972 radio broadcast of men debating their involvement and identification
with feminist
struggles and the women's
liberation movement.
Through mindful
liberation from such
struggles, they find acting congruently
with their values natural and fulfilling.
Through mindful
liberation from such
struggle, they find acting congruently
with their values quite natural and fufilling.