Sentences with phrase «with liberation theology»

About Blog I'm a lifelong Lutheran, and although I'm aware of some of the problems with Liberation Theology, it has spoken to me for much of my adolescent and adult life.

About Blog I'm a lifelong Lutheran, and although I'm aware of some of the problems with Liberation Theology, it has spoken to me for much of my adolescent and adult life.

About Blog I'm a lifelong Lutheran, and although I'm aware of some of the problems with Liberation Theology, it has spoken to me for much of my adolescent and adult life.

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.»

Whitehead, as we have just seen, seems unable to support a revolutionary interpretation and is in consequence not so immediately» compatible with a liberation theology in the strict sense.29 Nevertheless, he has a number of important qualifications to address to the standpoint of a revolutionary theology.

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).

The trouble with liberation theology is not Jesus» death and resurrection and sending of the Spirit, but his earthly life of solidarity with the oppressed is normative.

Troeltsch also has much in common with liberation theology.

Jones: Process theology is inept as a theology of liberation, It works at cross-purposes with liberation theology about 40 percent of the time.

This brings me to my enduring difficulty with liberation theology and its attempt to ground its vision of social and economic reform in the Bible.

Is there common ground evangelicals might share with liberation theology?

As with liberation theology, feminisms elsewhere are a point of reference for an indigenous development, the nature of which has yet to be adequately described.

A third reason for selecting political theology rather than liberation theology for discussion in this book is that other process theologians have begun the dialogue with liberation theology, and I am confident that this will continue.

If process theology moves in this direction, then the result would be an appropriate complementarity with liberation theology.

Process theology, in spite of its claims to the contrary, is not very compatible with liberation theology and in fact often works at cross purposes to it.

On a scale of 1 to 10, Jones predicts that process theology will tally 6 points of compatibility with liberation theology's gospel and mission of economic, social, and political liberation for the wretched of the earth.

Jones uses these guidelines as a «grid» in order to evaluate process theology's compatibility claims with liberation theology.

This global perspective contrasts not only with political theologies of the past which correlated theology with the needs of particular states, but also with liberation theologies.

Not exact matches

The university is striving to overcome the intellectual insularity of the Soviet era, but few of the theology students I met had wrestled with the difficult challenges that have shaped contemporary Western theology, such as historical criticism or theologies of liberation.

While having enough respect for Michael Novak to read him with openness and humility, I was left disturbed by some of his insinuations in the article, «Liberation Theology» What's Left» (June - July).

Liberation theology is not the occasion for the ideological promotion of a vantage point, and the fact that it can be done from all vantage points, ecumenically and universally, with each correcting and corrected by the other, should effectively discourage such.

What we end up with, if we hold fast to Walker's Hartshornean, black liberation theology is an «in the by - and - by» theology.

Liberation theology «is obliged» to provide African American theologians with the guidelines for theological construction.

In the latter decades of the twentieth century, the phrase liberation theology often has been used synonymously with Latin American liberation theology.

The second element has to do with the implications of liberation theology's concrete focus on Jesus Christ.

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.

«We need to move toward a dialogical theology in which the praxis of dialogue together with that of human liberation will constitute a true locus theologicus, i.e., both a source and basis for theological work.»

I can not identify with any one form of liberation theology, and insofar as they are separated from the technical, historical and methodological questions dealt with by the «establishment,» these theologies suffer incompleteness.

The distinction between the emphases that have been characteristic of liberation theology and process theology respectively can be indicated with the words «interests» and «perspectives.»

It would complicate this paper too much to deal with all the theologies of liberation; so in this paper I shall limit the reference to Latin American liberation theology.

The pastor espoused a black liberation theology that equates Jesus» life and death with the plight of those who Wright saw as disenfranchised, from African - Americans to Palestinians.

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.

Although Brown does not uncritically agree with everything said by theologians of liberation, he presents his form of process theology more as a supplementation and conceptual grounding of their insights than as expressing a different understanding of the theological task.

This is at odds with the teaching of liberation theology, where you had black theologians like Dr. James Cone who wrote that the gospel is essentially for the oppressed and not the oppressor.

They all claimed they had the right to question / disagree with his black liberation theology.

How do you feel Liberation Theology competes with or compliments different understandings of the gospel?

I think that all theology outside of the religious right has a PR problem in the U.S. Glenn Beck's comments about liberation theology — in conjunction with the clips from Jeremiah Wright's sermons — brought liberation theology to the attention of mainstream media.

According to Sigmund, liberation theology needs to move into a third phase, one of «dialogue with liberalism.»

But the fundamentalists are popular with the Pinochet government because of their political conservatism and emphasis on passive acceptance of authority — in contrast to socially activist Catholic groups inspired by liberation theology.

Our visitor nodded, took notes, and finally probed with clinical precision: But would you say liberation theology is dead?

He contends, first, that liberation theology should free its social analysis from a preoccupation with global «dependent capitalism» and move toward more specific analyses of land reform and of other pressing needs which would help popular Christian movements be «more politically effective at a national level.»

Other essays in the collection compare and contrast Hartshorne's theism with Latin American liberation theology (Peter C. Phan), with phenomenology and Buddhism (Hiroshi Endo), and with European philosophy (André Cloots and Jan Van der Veken).

In particular I think the theological style associated with the various «liberation theologies» tends to continue the assumption that Christians have a stake in using violence to make history «come out right» — except that now power will be used to aid the oppressed.

We have also held conferences with Hindus and Neoconfucianists, on African cosmology and various liberation theologies, with political theorists and economists, with psychiatrists and educators, with biologists and physicists.

He would like to see liberation theology take its cues from base communities» populist «grass - roots communitarian democracy» and then extend this «populism» into a liberalism that, contra Marx, offers «democracy and equality to all human beings, regardless of sex, race or social class (Rousseau)» Sigmund's agenda would purge liberation theology of much of its «early revolutionary fervor,» but in its dialogue with liberalism it would still perform «a radical «prophetic» role in reminding complacent elites of the religious obligation of social solidarity, and in combating oppression.»

Yet even if many of the questions posed by liberation theology are relevant, one can not necessarily respond to them with identical answers or even necessarily apply the same method in obtaining those answers.

Such efforts represent the sort of sociopolitical praxis that can realistically shed light on theological reflection for those who work with the heritage of liberation theology.

Indeed, a «sociological imagination» is slowly transforming all theologies — sometimes with unsettling and explicit power, as in the use of critical social theories in political and liberation theologies; sometimes with more implicit but no less unsettling effect, as in the increasing use of sociology of knowledge to clarify the actual social settings (or publics) of different theologies.

Accordingly, in Roots of a Black Future: Family and Church, Roberts draws heavily upon traditional African resources to develop his vision of the black church as an extended family, and in Black Theology in Dialogue he dialogues with South Korean Minjung theology and with Jewish liberation tTheology in Dialogue he dialogues with South Korean Minjung theology and with Jewish liberation ttheology and with Jewish liberation theologytheology.

The status of a strictly metaphysical assertion, taken alone, or only in combination with other strictly metaphysical assertions, is a matter about which black theology and most other theologies of liberation have shown little interest, and this is so for the best of reasons.