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Author : Rosemary Radford Ruether
Release : 1972
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Liberation Theology: Human Hope Confronts Christian History and American Power by : Rosemary Radford Ruether
Download or read book Liberation Theology: Human Hope Confronts Christian History and American Power written by Rosemary Radford Ruether. This book was released on 1972. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lilian Calles Barger
Release : 2018-07-02
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis The World Come of Age by : Lilian Calles Barger
Download or read book The World Come of Age written by Lilian Calles Barger. This book was released on 2018-07-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On November 16, 2017, Pope Francis tweeted, "Poverty is not an accident. It has causes that must be recognized and removed for the good of so many of our brothers and sisters." With this statement and others like it, the first Latin American pope was associated, in the minds of many, with a stream of theology that swept the Western hemisphere in the 1960s and 70s, the movement known as liberation theology. Born of chaotic cultural crises in Latin America and the United States, liberation theology was a trans-American intellectual movement that sought to speak for those parts of society marginalized by modern politics and religion by virtue of race, class, or sex. Led by such revolutionaries as the Peruvian Catholic priest Gustavo Gutiérrez, the African American theologian James Cone, or the feminists Mary Daly and Rosemary Radford Ruether, the liberation theology movement sought to bridge the gulf between the religious values of justice and equality and political pragmatism. It combined theology with strands of radical politics, social theory, and the history and experience of subordinated groups to challenge the ideas that underwrite the hierarchical structures of an unjust society. Praised by some as a radical return to early Christian ethics and decried by others as a Marxist takeover, liberation theology has a wide-raging, cross-sectional history that has previously gone undocumented. In The World Come of Age, Lilian Calles Barger offers for the first time a systematic retelling of the history of liberation theology, demonstrating how a group of theologians set the stage for a torrent of new religious activism that challenged the religious and political status quo.
Author : Ivan Petrella
Release : 2013-01-03
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Beyond Liberation Theology by : Ivan Petrella
Download or read book Beyond Liberation Theology written by Ivan Petrella. This book was released on 2013-01-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberation theologies are the most important theological movement of our time. In the 20th century, their influence shook the Third and First Worlds, grass root organizations and the affluent Western academy, as well as the lives of priests and laypeople persecuted and murdered for living out their understanding of the Christian message. In the 21st C their insights and goals remain – unfortunately – as valid as ever.
Author : Robert McAfee Brown
Release : 1993-01-01
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Liberation Theology by : Robert McAfee Brown
Download or read book Liberation Theology written by Robert McAfee Brown. This book was released on 1993-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brown explains and illuminates liberation theology for North American readers who may have no previous knowledge of this recent dynamic Christian movement. Growing out of the experience of oppressed people in Latin America, liberation theology lends a transforming power to both the study of the Bible and the Christian duty to work for justice for all God's people.
Author : Gary J. Dorrien
Release : 2006-01-01
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis The Making of American Liberal Theology by : Gary J. Dorrien
Download or read book The Making of American Liberal Theology written by Gary J. Dorrien. This book was released on 2006-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first of three volumes, Dorrien identifies the indigenous roots of American liberal theology and demonstrates a wider, longer-running tradition than has been thought. The tradition took shape in the nineteenth century, motivated by a desire to map a modernist "third way" between orthodoxy and rationalistic deism/atheism. It is defined by its openness to modern intellectual inquiry; its commitment to the authority of individual reason and experience; its conception of Christianity as an ethical way of life; and its commitment to make Christianity credible and socially relevant to modern people. Dorrien takes a narrative approach and provides a biographical reading of important religious thinkers of the time, including William E. Channing, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Horace Bushnell, Henry Ward Beecher, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Charles Briggs. Dorrien notes that, although liberal theology moved into elite academic institutions, its conceptual foundations were laid in the pulpit rather than the classroom.
