Liberation Theology At The Crossroads

Author : Paul E. Sigmund
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195344936
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberation Theology at the Crossroads written by Paul E. Sigmund and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992-09-03 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberation theology originated in Catholic Latin America at the end of the 1960s in response to prevalent conditions of poverty and oppression. Its basic tenet was that it is the primary duty of the church to seek to promote social and economic justice. Since that time it has grown in influence, spreading to other areas of the Third World, along with bitter controversy about its ties to Marxist ideology and violent revolution. Drawing on both English and Spanish sources, this critical study examines the history, method, and doctrines of liberation theology. Sigmund considers the movement's origins in political circumstances in Latin America and provides case studies of its role in such events as the revolution and counter-revolution in Chile, and in the revolutionary movements in El Salvador and Nicaragua. Examining the thought of major liberation theologians, as well as the critical responses of the Vatican, Sigmund shows that liberation theology is a complex phenomenon, comprising a variety of kinds and degrees of radicalism. He discerns a general trend away from the Marxist rhetoric that has often characterized the movement in the past and towards the kind of grassroots populist reform typified by the Basic Christian Communities Movement.

Author : Jon Sobrino
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1592440959
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christology at the Crossroads written by Jon Sobrino and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2002-11-20 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Gutierrez has done for overall theological understanding, what Segundo has done for theological method, and what Miranda has done for biblical studies, Jon Sobrino has now done for Christology; He has provided a substantial and enduring theological contribution from a Third World perspective. This book will have long life, since it not only argues for the necessity of a Christology 'from the underside of history, ' but offers an extensive example of how such a Christology should be constructed, showing the basic connection between the radical historicity of Jesus and the suffering and pain of oppressed people. The thoroughness of the author's survey of other positions, the fullness of his documentation, and the pervasive power of his own affirmations make clear that 'Christology at the Crossroads' will not leave us stranded at the crossroads but will start us down exciting and demanding new paths. Robert McAfee Brown Professor of Ecumenics and World Christianity, Union Theological Seminary The publication of 'Christology at the Crossroads' in English is most opportune. It is not only the Christology presented in this book, but the Christology of the church at large (indeed of the churches) that stands at the crossroads at present. Those of us who have been working in this field know that in order to break through some deadlocked situations we need a Christology more soberly rooted in soteriology, more honestly founded upon the historical Jesus, and more realistically turned towards a future yet to be realized. Yet in the affluent and basically contented northern nations of the western world, this kind of Christology has not so far been written. To find it one must turn to the Third World theologians for the present, and among these Jon Sobrino's book is a landmark. Monika K. Hellwig Associate Professor of Theology, Georgetown Universit

Author : Curt Cadorette
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1592446736
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberation Theology written by Curt Cadorette and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2004-04-27 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past twenty-five years, liberation theology has emerged as one of the most influential, challenging, and controversial movements in modern theology. Whether in its Asian, African, Latin American, or African-American forms, liberation theology has undertaken to reexamine the dimensions of Christian faith from the perspective of the marginalized and oppressed. Here, at last, is a collection of readings from a cross-section of the world's leading exponents of liberation theology, designed to offer an overview of liberation theology and its central themes. Topics included are methodology, christology, ecclesiology, and spirituality. Each chapter includes a helpful introduction and questions for discussion, making this an ideal introductory text for students, as well as scholars and other general readers. Contributors: Maria Pilar Aquino Tissa Balasuriya Dominique Barbe Clodovis Boff Leonardo Boff Ernesto Cardenal Chung Hyun Kyung James H. Cone Jean-Marc Ela Ivone Gebara Gustavo Gutierrez Mary Hunt Sallie McFague Mary John Mananzan Carlos Mesters Anne Nasimiyu-Wasike Sun Ai Park Jon Sobrino Charles Villa-Vicencio Yong Ting Jin

Author : Reynaldo D. Raluto
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789715507134
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poverty and Ecology at the Crossroads written by Reynaldo D. Raluto and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a theological reflection on the praxis of struggle for human and ecological liberation. It critically appropriates the framework of the emerging ecological theology of liberation, which expands the notion of the preferential option for the poor--privileging those who suffer from class oppression, racial discrimination, sexist ideologies, and ecological exploitation. With the analytical mediation of the social and ecological sciences, this book investigates the oppressive ideologies that produce poverty and the ecological crisis. It maps out existing advocacies that may awaken a sense of solidarity and serve as embers of hope for a sustainable world.

Author : Frederick Herzog
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725232820
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberation Theology written by Frederick Herzog and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-03-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberation Theology is the first serious acknowledgment by a white theologian of the challenge of Black Theology. It invites American theology to reconsider radically its foundations and to reorder its priorities. At a time when theology is often presented piecemeal, Frederick Herzog undertakes to ground Liberation Theology in the originating events of the Christian faith as a whole - in this instance, in the life, death, and resurrection of Christ as given in the Fourth Gospel. The systematic readings in the Gospel which he makes and from which emerge the principles of Liberation Theology are the heart of this book. Throughout, the author asks: How do we understand Christ as Liberator? The answer to this question, he maintains, determines whether or not we are still able to contemplate the Word as power and action. Written with contemporary directness and free of vague abstractions, the book casts theology into a new form to meet today's needs. The method of this new theology is confrontation, not correlation; its goal is liberation, not reformation; and it strives for a new space of freedom among people captive to the dehumanizing structures of modern theology.

Author : Leonardo Boff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Way of the Cross--way of Justice written by Leonardo Boff and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. Andrew Kirk
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
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Download or read book Liberation Theology written by J. Andrew Kirk and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. David Turner
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780819191373
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Liberation Theology written by J. David Turner and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1994 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to how liberation theologists have fought for democratic socialism; demanded radical economic structural change; attempted to raise the consciousness of the poor; and challenged traditional roles within the Catholic Church with the goal of giving the laity a stronger voice.

Author : Patrick Gilger
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608334481
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jesuit Post written by Patrick Gilger and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn from the eponymous blog essays on faith, culture, and lives of Christian discipleship by young Jesuit priests and seminarians for young adult seekers.

Author : Detlef Schwartz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783961383344
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Justice, Equal Rights, and Peace: The Inter-Religio Us Dialogue at the Crossroads of Religion and Culture written by Detlef Schwartz and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: