Sentences with phrase «works for the liberation»

To say that we as Christians owe Latin America the gospel is to affirm our responsibility to work for the liberation of this region of poverty and oppression.

Spealdng as a Christian and as a biologist, Birch argues that the Christian obligation to work for the liberation of the oppressed includes an obligation to work for the liberation of the nonhuman oppressed.

The poor will not be judged by their obedience to authority and their quiet endurance of earthly misery but are free to be faithful to a God that works for liberation within history, as the Pharaoh unhappily discovered.

This conviction was a result of his understanding of God that God is a suffering God who suffers along with his suffering people and who works for their liberation.

Not exact matches

The People's Liberation Army Daily on Wednesday published its list of attendees for the upcoming 19th party congress in Beijing on October 18, with two notable exclusions: Fang Fenghui, who was recently replaced as the chief at the Joint Staff Department in China's military and is currently under investigation for corruption, and General Zhang Yang, the director of the political work department, who also sits on the military commission.

In 1962, the Hawaiian Fashion Guild launched Operation Liberation, an aggressive campaign to coax the U.S. Senate to enshrine Aloha Fridays, a day for men to wear Hawaiian shirts to work.

There might be no argument against such liberation that works for the women on an individual level.

Hedström, living in Latin America for many years and deeply influenced by liberation perspectives, has published several works at the interface of liberation theology and ecology.

They do not challenge the right of Third World churches to work for such liberation.

«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.»

In these last years, scarred by AIDS, by the dominant culture of greed and violence, and by personal loss and pain, I have come to see more distinctly the vital link between the healing process (traditionally the prerogative of religious and medical traditions) and the work of liberation (assumed to be the business of revolutionary movements for justice).

In these last years scarred by AIDS, by the dominant culture of greed and violence, and by personal loss and pain, the author has come to see more distinctly the vital link between the healing process (traditionally the prerogative of religious and medical traditions) and the work of liberation (assumed to be the business of revolutionary movements for justice).

And so far as we understand that the whole of Christ's work is a work of liberation — of our liberation from sin, death, concupiscence, fatality (and from ourselves)-- we shall see that violence is not simply an ethical option for us to take or leave.

In fact, U.S. liberation movements are already under way in women's groups, community organizing efforts among the poor, the search for freedom by gay and lesbian communities, and in Native American, African American and Hispanic struggles against U.S. racism, and in a host of works for justice, peace and the wholeness of creation.

The Christian community now possesses for the first time some excellent scholarly works on the treatment of homosexuality in Scripture, such as Robin Scroggs's The New Testament and Homosexuality (Fortress, 1984) and George Edwards's Gay / Lesbian Liberation: A Biblical Perspective (Pilgrim, 1984).

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.

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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.

I set you apart in your regular, walking - around life for the daily work of liberation and love, proclaim the Gospel with your hands and your feet and your voice to every soul in your care and influence.

We seek the Church which initiates actions for liberation and support the work of other liberating groups without calculating self - interest.

Jesus, he announced, «is God himself coming into the very depths of human existence for the sole purpose of striking off the chains of slavery, thereby freeing man from ungodly principalities and powers that hinder his relationship with God... Jesus» work is essentially one of liberation.»

We humans are the problem for bats and for the rest of creation as it awaits liberation for which the Spirit intercedes, works and groans with sighs too deep for words.

For if Bultmann's final defense of an existentialist theology is not that it is apologetically imperative, but that it is, with respect to belief, the contemporary expression of the Pauline doctrine that we are justified by faith alone without the works of the law, it seems to me that the final and comparably sufficient defense of a liberation theology is that it is, with respect to action, the contemporary expression of the equally Pauline doctrine that the only faith that justifies is the faith that works by love.

For Christian theologians, the importance of class analysis has been kept alive through the work of Latin American liberation theologians.

The Dalai Lama works tirelessly for the liberation of Tibet.

Finally, Charles Villa - Vicencio takes up the new work of making liberation theology not just a theology of resistance but of reconstruction in places like South Africa and El Salvador, where civil war has ended but the crushing burdens of building a more humane society continue — in a new world order with less and less compassion or creative insight for the plight of the poor.

Rather, they resulted from an often ad hoc process in which the spiritual and physical needs of the poor, the teachings of Vatican II, the intentions of the Brazilian hierarchy (running both for and against the emerging agenda of liberation theology), the brutal repression perpetrated by Brazilian dictators, and the work of academics all played a part.

For liberation theology, working to overcome oppression and poverty becomes the main aim of Christianity, eclipsing the importance of a life of faithful devotion and the salvific relationship to Christ.

Are we prepared to stand firm in our faith in working for the people in their struggle for justice, liberation and so on in spite of all accusations and threats?

Castro for his part clearly recognized the political gain in an alliance between liberation theology and Marxist revolution: «From a strictly political point of view» and I think I know something about politics» I believe that it is possible for Christians to be Marxists as well, and to work with Marxist Communists to transform the world.»

Political theology and creative political will thus remain a chance and opportunity to work with God for our fellows» liberation and freedom until victory of love and justice for all is finally won.

And, if you combine such a missio dei missiology with the «Preferential Option for the Poor» that became prominent in the 1970s, you end up as did the World Council of Churches 1980 mission meeting at Melbourne... focused on economic liberation as God was «at work» there.

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.

For seventeen years Tony Clarke, an Anglican, directed the Social Affairs department of the Canadian bishops conference, working in tandem with liberation theologian Gregory Baum.

Hence, part of the task of white process theologians is to complement the work of Black (and other liberation) theologies by engaging in theory - critique and proposing alternative directions for global economic systems.

The yogi's work is to create liberation for the collective good, says Michelle Johnson, a yoga instructor, licensed social worker and presenter at the July 27 - 30 Asheville Yoga Festival.

Having prepared the body and mind for the work, meditation is thusly, ultimately, the means by which liberation takes place.

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While working as a reporter for Newsweek in 1957, Ben created controversy when he interviewed members of the National Liberation Front (FLN).

May 16, 2018 • In the early 1980s, hearing the work of the avant - garde guitarist for the first time — familiar sounds layered into something overwhelming and powerful — was a form of liberation.

So much is this set of attitudes - the priority of «liberation» or «emancipation» as the central metaphor for the teacher's work - taken for granted among American educators that the higher performance of pupils in other countries on international tests in math and science is often dismissed as reflecting other countries» inappropriate stress on drill and memorization.

and the Congress of Day Laborers began working together more than six years ago after realizing that their struggles for LGBTQ liberation, the human right to move freely, and the fight against criminalization are inherently and inextricably linked.

Guan worked for a time in an oil factory, leaving at the age of 20 to join the People's Liberation Army.

«Above all else, our politics initially sprang from the shared belief that Black women are inherently valuable, that our liberation is a necessity not as an adjunct to somebody else's but because of our need as human persons for autonomy... We realize that the only people who care enough about us to work consistently for our liberation are us.

This site details all the things I researched before my first retirement, what worked for me, and what I have experienced since I declared employment liberation.

Rather than working together for the sake of establishing humanity's place in the universe, a militant group called the Settlement Liberation Front (SDF) has raised an army with the intent of seizing control of just about everything from the United Nations Space Alliance (UNSA) and its military protectors, the Solar Associated Treaty Organization (SATO).

SEGA has released a new video with legendary composer, Yasunori Mitsuda, known for his work on Chrono Trigger and Stella Glow, discussing how he composed the music on Valkyria Revolution that reflects the classic feel of the European industrial revolution era that focuses on a war of liberation between two vastly different nations with Tokyo Symphony Orchestra conducting a live concert - hall recording for the soundtrack and his collaborator Sarah Àlainn, a multilingual Australian - Japanese singer with a voice spanning over 3 octaves, lends her hauntingly beautiful voice to a couple tracks.

After a short cupcake break Clint Hocking (Far Cry 2) and Jill Murray (Assassin's Creed III: Liberation) took to the stage to talk about their experience of entering into the AAA world and working for major studios.

Why, it's almost as if a detail point for Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed: Liberation accidentally worked its way into the Madden fact sheet.