Hermeneutic style will vary with mainline and evangelical, just as it does
with the liberationist, feminist or process theologian, but the biblical underpinnings are essential.
He came away from the experience disillusioned, concluding that with its drift away from orthodoxy and its increasing preoccupation
with liberationist, feminist, postmodern, and post-Christian themes, «liberal Protestant theology had come to a dead end.»
Not exact matches
Even Sullivan's chapter on «The
Liberationists» does not include those we have come to associate with that term (the strident gay - rights activists or flamboyant gay liberationists) but focuses instead on a ragtag group of theoreticians influenced by Fren
Liberationists» does not include those we have come to associate
with that term (the strident gay - rights activists or flamboyant gay
liberationists) but focuses instead on a ragtag group of theoreticians influenced by Fren
liberationists) but focuses instead on a ragtag group of theoreticians influenced by French philosophy.
♦ We came across this interview by North American
liberationist Jim Wallis
with Latin American
liberationist Jon Sobrino.
They did so because they wanted missionaries to deal
with personal conversions to Christ and avoid
liberationist entanglements.
Those who do not want to deal
with the issues raised by
liberationists and women are trying to close the door upon them.
Through these criticisms, Troeltsch can provide us
with a needed sense of perspective on the
liberationist project.
While no Christian disagrees
with these efforts, some Catholic, Orthodox,
liberationist and ecumenical Christians tend to reject these emphases because they fail to evoke direct social action in the more usual sense.
There is a mounting insistence among women (including many who reject the methods of militant
liberationists) that they be treated as full human beings,
with freedom to choose and to develop their personal gifts and abilities.
Nonetheless, if American schools would be willing to recognize diversity and perhaps even to incorporate colleges
with diverse commitments, whether religious, feminist, gay, politically liberal or conservative, humanist,
liberationist, or whatever, pluralism might have a genuine chance to thrive.
Christ opening himself up to the «least of these» and identifying
with them was, for many
liberationists, the act of self - sacrifice that fulfilled the historical Jesus's indwelling by God the Father.
I submit that their concern is not so much
with the conservatives» possible manipulation of King's dream as
with the difficulties that dream creates for the aspirations of the
liberationists, democratic socialists and progressives.
As the book points out, for example, the «obviously inadequate instantiation» of caritas in medieval Christianity helped to precipitate the Reformation and its leaders» emphasis on doctrine; Reformation - era «authorities» breaches of caritas via confessional coercion created a reservoir of resentment sufficient to spring and sustain the secularizing, antireligious,
liberationist ideology pervasive in the modern era down to the present»; and awareness of churches» collusion
with European imperial colonial violence is linked to the steep decline in European churchgoing since World War II.