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| | Liberation Theology |
 | | Liberation theology, a term first used in 1973 by Gustavo Gutierrez, a Peruvian Roman Catholic priest, is a school of thought among Latin American Catholics according to which the Gospel of Christ demands that the church concentrate its efforts on liberating the people of the world from poverty and oppression. | | | "A theology of the Church in the world should be complemented by a theology of the world in the Church" (Gutierrez). | | | Liberation theologians believe that the orthodox doctrine of God tends to manipulate God in favor of the capitalistic social structure. |
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http://mb-soft.com/believe/txn/liberati.htm
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| | Notification Regarding Liberation Theology |
| | For the "theologies of liberation" however, the social doctrine of the Church is rejected with disdain. | | | But the "theologies of liberation" of which we are speaking, mean by Church of the People a Church of the class, a Church of the oppressed people whom it is necessary to "conscientize" in the light of the organized struggle for freedom. | | | The different theologies of liberation are situated between the preferential option for the poor, forcefully reaffirmed without ambiguity after Medellin at the Conference of Puebla [19] on the one hand, and the temptation to reduce the Gospel to an earthly gospel on the other. |
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http://www.ourladyswarriors.org/dissent/libtheo.htm
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| | Jesus and Liberation Theology |
| | Liberation theology type B is biblical theology, theology determined by Jesus Christ and the witness of faith to him and his own witness in that faith. | | | Liberation is not defined by the individual in terms of his place in the world, where it is so subject to ideological appropriation; it is defined by the place God has set apart, the community of Israel. | | | Nevertheless, this theology is liberation theology because it witnesses to the power of Jesus Christ to liberate me from my white middle-class world, from the university, and to place me beside the marginals, the oppressed, in hope and promise of their liberation. |
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http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=1842
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| | Liberation Theology |
| | Liberation theology is the prophetic response to oppression. | | | Liberation Theology becomes a way of understanding Christian life, faith, and the mission of the church through the eyes of the poor and their demand for justice. | | | There is a relationship between theology and practice, the theology here is the insistence that the practice in question is the liberating force of the exploited classes bringing in the Kingdom of God. |
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http://latter-rain.com/freedom/libthe.htm
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| | San Francisco Faith February 2003 What We Must Never Forget, by Christopher Zehnder |
| | This is not to say secular liberation is not important, or not connected to the work of Christ; indeed, it is ancillary to redemption, since it is in accordance with the moral law of God and clears away some of the obstacles to spiritual liberation. | | | By removing the "dualism" of spiritual and secular liberation, the liberation theologian could claim that Christian liberation is as much "secular" as it is "spiritual." For liberation theology, Christ came specifically to liberate men from oppressive social structures. | | | Yet, according to Church tradition, secular liberation is not the same as spiritual liberation. |
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http://www.sffaith.com/ed/articles/2003/0203cz.htm
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| | Catholic Culture : Document Library : The Retreat of Liberation Theology |
| | Levine notes that liberation theology is redirecting its "central concerns away from politics in the narrow sense to issues of popular religion, spirituality, and long-term social and cultural change" (1990b: 607). | | | The adversaries of liberation theology promote greater Christian unity by insisting on an inclusive understanding of the oft-repeated phrase "preferential option for the poor." The response to the liberationists' exclusionary use of this phrase is an emphasis on the Church's duty towards all people, regardless of their social class. | | | Liberation theology is an attempt to change people's minds about what is most decisive and significant in their lives. |
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http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=643
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| | Theologies: Liberation vs Submission |
| | Liberation Theologists counter attack by saying their opponents' arguments are based on euro-centrist principles and that critics seem to ignore the spiritual resources of the poor and under privileged. | | | There is ample talk these days of Liberation Theology, Church of the People, and Grassroots Religion. | | | The method adopted by the small Church groups involved in Liberation Theology is to teach the Bible by establishing parallels with nowaday realities. |
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http://www.cyberie.qc.ca/jpc/haiti/theology.html
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| | Rome’s first official response to liberation theology came from Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, conservative head of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (Rome’s office for identifying and dealing with heresy in the church). | | | For liberation thinkers, theology needed to shift its focus from abstract speculation on the nature and existence of God to the concrete realities of how the gospel might serve to reverse the oppressive and burdensome conditions in which so many people languished. | | | It also means that in Scripture it is in the plight of the poor and their struggle for liberation that God is most clearly revealed. |
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http://www.enjoyinggodministries.com/article.asp?id=349
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| | Liberation Theology (by Ron Rhodes) |
| | Liberation theologians have thus tried to communicate to their compatriots that God is not impassive. | | | Liberation theology does not ask what the church is, but rather what it means "to be the church in a context of extreme poverty, social injustice and revolution. | | | 12 Emilio Nunez, "The Church in the Liberation Theology of Gutierrez," in Biblical Interpretation and the Church, ed. |
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http://home.earthlink.net/~ronrhodes/Liberation.html
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| | A Concise History of Liberation Theology |
| | The first theological reflections that were to lead to liberation theology had their origins in a context of dialogue between a church and a society in ferment, between Christian faith and the longings for transformation and liberation arising from the people. | | | The door was opened for the development of a theology from the periphery dealing with the concerns of this periphery, concerns that presented and still present an immense challenge to the evangelizing mission of the church. | | | The liberation dimension is seen a an "integral put" (§§355, 1254, 1283) of the mission of the church, "indispensable" (§§562, 1270), "essential" (§1302). |
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http://www.landreform.org/boff2.htm
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| | Liberation Theology |
| | Liberation theology redresses the errors of the Church, reminding it to serve the Kingdom of God, but understood as an earthly affair. | | | Liberation theology is thus based on the Bible. | | | The theologians who formulated liberation theology usually do not teach in universities and seminaries, they are a small group of Catholic or Protestant clergy and have direct contact with the grass-roots groups as advisors to priests, sisters or pastors. |
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http://www.socinian.org/liberty.html
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| | Praxis and Church in the theology of liberation. | | | Liberation theology in the Methodist Church of Brazil: Faith and action in six Methodist educational institutions. | | | Human liberation and theology: An examination of the theology of Gustavo Gutierrez, James H. Cone, and Mary Daly. |
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http://www.providence.edu/las/theology.htm
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| | Liberation Theology Should Frighten / g c i 275 |
| | The discussion about liberation theology has to be seen within the framework of a church that has a stronger, more active presence in Latin America, especially among the most impoverished of the continent. | | | The strength of liberation theology is not its social analysis but its faith before the world's problems. | | | As Christians, we define ourselves before God through our conduct in history, by what we do for the poor and what we do no do, just as Jesus said in the Gospels. |
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http://www.gci275.com/news/nwswk01.shtml
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| | An Evangelical Theology of Liberation |
| | Liberal theologians thought that belief in the deity of Jesus Christ and his bodily resurrection was incompatible with a modern scientific world view. | | | In God’s revelation in Scripture we come to the recognition that the divine liberation of the oppressed is determined not by our perceptions but by the God of the Exodus, the prophets and Jesus Christ, who calls the oppressed into a liberated existence. | | | One of the serious weaknesses in much of liberation theology is an inadequate ecclesiology, especially the tendency to blur the distinction between the church and the world. |
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http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=1757
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| | Liberation Theology |
| | As long as this remains the basis of the beliefs of liberation theologians, then their beliefs can at some time in the future once again be negated and countered and turned into impotent dead-end or self-destructive directions by abstract arguments and statements about feelings and emotions, by quoting out of context. | | | Liberation theologians maintain that Christian belief and practice ranges along a continuous scale between two forms, one at each end. | | | At one end of this scale is the kind which in effect serves the establishment, that is those in authority such as a government, and this kind teaches that reward will be a better life in a life to come. |
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http://www.solbaram.org/articles/libthe.html
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| | wooQ: Black Liberation Theology |
| | This is unlike classical Protestant theology, which regards the Bible as the supreme authority in matters of faith and practice. | | | Black theology does not just view the resurrection of Jesus Christ as oriented towards a heavenly future hope, but sees it as an earthly future hope that symbolizes freedom for those who are suffering from oppression. | | | You also don't seem to understand that "contextual theology" (which Black theology is) is not meant to transcend culture, but to adapt the gospel message so it speaks directly to a certain cultural situation. |
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http://wooq.blogspot.com/2005/09/black-liberation-theology.html
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| | BBC - Religion & Ethics - Pope John Paul II |
| | Liberation theology said the church should derive its legitimacy and theology by growing out of the poor. | | | There can be only one answer: we can be followers of Jesus and true Christians only by making common cause with the poor and working out the gospel of liberation. | | | The Bible should be read and experienced from the perspective of the poor. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/pope/obit/theo_liberation.shtml
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| | FrontPage magazine.com :: Catholics for Marx by Fr. Robert Sirico |
| | In fact, the Vatican criticisms of liberation theology were actually quite nuanced, affirming the preferential option for the poor (the Church's traditional belief that individuals must help the needy) and the social import of the Gospel message but rejecting the theological outlook of class struggle and the means of violence. | | | The breeding ground for libertarian theology was, of course, Roman Catholicism, the world's largest branch of Christianity and the religion of Latin America. | | | In the version of events you are likely to hear in college, the Vatican led a massive crackdown against theologians who spoke out for the poor, and muzzled saintly bishops who sided with peasant communities struggling for their rights. |
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http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13586
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| | Black Theology Revisited - Christianity Today Magazine |
| | Cone, in his autobiography My Soul Looks Back, says about the future of black theology: "Its chief task is to help the church to be faithful to the task of preaching and living the liberating gospel of Jesus Christ in the world today." | | | Black theology, he says, must also deliberately unite with womanist theology, cultivating "a prolonged, organized conversation and joining practice between womanists and (male) black theologians." (Womanist refers to the black feminist movement, emphasizing strong, assertive traits.) Black women must be empowered for making decisions in "business ownership, politics, education, religion, the family, and more." | | | It seeks to interpret the gospel of Jesus Christ against the backdrop of historical and contemporary racism. |
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http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2004/003/37.77.html
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| | Liberation Theology Resources Online |
| | Liberation theology: a challenge to the church at religionlink.org | | | It is the perpetual temptation of religious thought to congeal in a way that leaves a suffering world unchanged, not realizing that as lived human life becomes meaningless, all concepts of God gradually become meaningless as well. | | | The churches' defense of slavery in the 1800s, for example, discredited religion in the eyes (and hearts) of many in that century, just as religious justifications of oppression, war and nuclear weapons have created many crises of faith and conscience in our own time. |
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http://www.liberationtheology.org
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| | An Abiding Faith in Liberation Theology |
| | And while some young priests have been drawn to the fashionable charismatic Catholic movement, others say they still draw inspiration from the older advocates of liberation theology who were once prominent in Brazil. | | | In Brazil, though, liberation theology is far from dead. | | | "Many of our professors are of the generation when liberation theology was dominant, and the reading lists include the books that shaped their lives." |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/01/AR2005050100821.html
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| | liberation theology on Encyclopedia.com |
| | LIBERATION THEOLOGY [liberation theology] belief that the Christian Gospel demands "a preferential option for the poor," and that the church should be involved in the struggle for economic and political justice in the contemporary world—particularly in the Third World. | | | Dating to the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) and the Second Latin American Bishops Conference, held in Medellin, Colombia (1968), the movement brought poor people together in comunidades de base, or Christian-based communities, to study the Bible and to fight for social justice. | | | Into the house of bondage: liberation theology, invented by Catholic Marxists, adopted by liberal Protestants, is moving into the synagogue. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/l1/liberati.asp
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| | liberation theology |
| | The kingdom of god is seen as both something to come as well as present. | | | People might have saw it as, I don't want my children and all the generations to come to live like me, and my body is my own, you cannot keep me as a slave. | | | Liberation theology is rooted in the struggle of the people and it has a very communal/collective/democratic presence. |
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http://florycanto.net/links/journals/liberationtheology.html
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| | Ecumenical Liberation Thelology Center - Sabeel |
| | Inspired by the life and teaching of Jesus Christ, this liberation theology seeks to deepen the faith of Palestinian Christians, promote unity among them, and lead them to social action. | | | A Call for Morally Responsible Investment a challenge for churches to consider a nonviolent approach towards a resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict. | | | Sabeel is an ecumenical grassroots liberation theology movement among Palestinian Christians. |
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http://www.sabeel.org
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