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January 14, 2018
Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, as a young man he worked as a chemical technologist and a nightclub bouncer before becoming a priest in 1963. As Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Bergoglio embraced Liberation Theology and the Argentine cleric was admired across South America for his trademark humility.
Patheos (blog)
December 28, 2017
I have been writing a series about my conversion to liberation theology. This has worried some of my readers. One even took the trouble of sending me the Vatican's 'Instruction on Certain Aspects of the “Theology of Liberation.”' He shared with me his primary concern with my first post, the one where IÃÂ ...
Patheos (blog)
December 23, 2017
The stories I have just told, in other words, open a new dimension in my conversion to liberation theology. When I set out to write this series, I thought I was simply going to move from Radical Orthodoxy to liberation theology via psychoanalysis in the Eastern Catholic church I joined, with my thinking refinedÃÂ ...
Patheos (blog)
December 21, 2017
Is this not the deeper impulse beneath liberation theology? The critique launched by a number of theologians of liberation is that much of what passes for theology are top-down institutional doctrines that do not connect with the material lives of believers. The point of liberation theology is for ordinaryÃÂ ...
Patheos (blog)
December 19, 2017
Slavoj Zizek in Liverpool – by Andy Miah, 17 March 2008 (Slavoj_Zizek_in_Liverpool.jpg) (CC BY-SA 2.0 [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/]), via Flickr This is the sixth in a series of posts testifying about my conversion to liberation theology. For previous posts, here are the first, second, third,ÃÂ ...
WTOP
December 31, 1999
The 1,500-member ELN was founded in the 1960s and led in early years by radical Catholic priests adhering to liberation theology and communist beliefs, aiming to resolve the nation's deep and still persistent social and economic inequality. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is heading to ColombiaÃÂ ...
WBUR
December 31, 1999
She co-founded a political party, The Christian Left, based on liberation theology. She and her husband came to believe that justice must be served on Earth, not left for promises of a heavenly but distant future. Renouncing privilege, the couple traveled with their four daughters to different churches eachÃÂ ...
Salt Lake Tribune
December 16, 2017
(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) In this May 4, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump holds up a signed executive order aimed at easing an IRS rule limiting political activity for churches in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. In an order that undercuts federal protections for LGBT people, AttorneyÃÂ ...
Premium Times
December 16, 2017
A former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, on Friday bagged the award of Doctor of Philosophy, PhD, in Christian Theology from the National Open University, NOUN. Mr. Obasanjo after a 163-minute defence of his voluminous thesis before a six-member panel was awarded the degree at the AbeokutaÃÂ ...
Daily Post Nigeria
December 16, 2017
The ex- President got the degree from the Department of Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), Abeokuta Study Centre, Ogun State with a PhD thesis titled: Resolving the Unfinished Agenda in Liberation Theology: Leadership, Poverty And Underdevelopment InÃÂ ...
Church Militant
December 15, 2017
What an embarrassment the Jesuits have become ever since they were tainted with liberation theology more than 50 years ago. Everything sounds so reasonable, but underlying it all is a great desertion of the Faith, and it's always packaged in such a way that makes it sound OK. Jesus was humble.
Patheos (blog)
December 15, 2017
Before moving on to my discovery of liberation theology proper, I want to talk a little bit more about the implications of the Radical Orthodoxy with which I was enamored while I was an Anglican and a graduate student in geography. It has taken me a while to admit that much of the inspiration behind my workÃÂ ...
Patheos (blog)
December 14, 2017
I was telling a colleague recently that it is a little bit funny that my students know me for teaching Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed and for trying to practice liberation theology more generally, even though I am quite bad at it. I was singing quite a different tune when I was in graduate school, and it isÃÂ ...
NPR
December 13, 2017
Like Black Liberation Theology before it — which rejected the image of a white European Jesus and remodeled Christianity under a black power rubric — Hebrew Israelites center black folks within the biblical lineage. But, ironically, being God's chosen people in this context also means being cursed, whichÃÂ ...
New Kerala
December 10, 2017
Known as the founder of black liberation theology, Cone is the Bill and Judith Moyers Distinguished Professor of Systematic Theology at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Cone is among the five Grawemeyer Award winners being named this week. The University of Louisville presents the prizesÃÂ ...
Crux: Covering all things Catholic
December 8, 2017
Pope Francis, left, greets Cardinal Angelo Sodano at the Vatican, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017. Pope Francis presided over a Eucharistic concelebration in the Pauline Chapel of the Apostolic Palace Thursday, on the occasion of the 90th birthday of Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Dean of the College of Cardinals.
Crain's Chicago Business
December 7, 2017
When he entered college in 1979, Notre Dame was one of the North American hotbeds for liberation theology, a Catholic framework originating in Latin America and focused on the poor. Gallo arrived as a DuPage County Republican; he cast his first presidential ballot for Ronald Reagan. His classmatesÃÂ ...
Insider Louisville
December 1, 2017
The University of Louisville and the Louisville Seminary have awarded theologian James H. Cone the 2018 Grawemeyer Award in Religion for his 2012 book “The Cross and the Lynching Tree.” Cone is the Bill and Judith Moyers Distinguished Professor of Systematic Theology at Union TheologicalÃÂ ...
New York Times
November 30, 2017
It's an ecumenical mix of people for this Black Madonna, who is happy to bring her liberation theology to the dance floor. “I'm personally invested in seeing a shift in power, even if that sometimes means shifting away from me,” Ms. Stamper said. “Maybe if I hadn't spent as much time on the other side of theÃÂ ...
The Livingston County News
November 24, 2017
For many years I have been attracted to liberation theology, which developed in Latin America during the last 50 years or so. Although there are academic liberation theologians, this sort of theology emphasizes that doing theology is more than researching and writing. Theology has to be lived. St. Francis ofÃÂ ...
Refinery29
November 22, 2017
"Around 25, I learned liberation theology, which says if this text is about all of God's people, and God created us all, then we must also be in the text. It forced me to look at different stories. One of my favorite stories, which is both in the Quran and the Bible, is the story of Yusuf in the Quran and the story ofÃÂ ...
Crux: Covering all things Catholic
November 20, 2017
Latin America in the 1960s, 70s and 80s, when the liberation theology movement played a part in bringing down military governments and police states, along with the “People Power” movement in the Philippines in the 1980s that swept the Marco regime from power, offer further cases in point. Trying toÃÂ ...
Patheos (blog)
December 31, 1999
The class met once weekly for three hours and was an intensive immersion in Latin American liberation theology. This book opened my eyes to things I had never known or thought about. One thing it did for me was convince me that most critics of liberation theology had not really read this classic book thatÃÂ ...
Green Left Weekly
September 14, 2017
In this view, Catholic priests who began organising peasants, guided by left-wing Liberation Theology, were seen as an existential threat.
The Fairfield Mirror
September 14, 2017
There is a strain of Christian and Catholic thought with loose ideological sympathies to the liberation theology movement of the mid-twentiethÃÂ ...
Durham Herald Sun
September 14, 2017
Carl Kenney is the executive producer of “God of the Oppressed', an upcoming documentary that explores black liberation theology. He is theÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
September 9, 2017
The ELN was founded by priests and seminary students inspired by liberation theology, which sought to identify the church with the poor andÃÂ ...
10TV
September 9, 2017
The ELN was founded by priests and seminary students inspired by liberation theology, which sought to identify the church with the poor andÃÂ ...
Claremont Courier
September 9, 2017
... teacher and activist in the Roman Catholic Church, and is well known as a pioneer in Christian feminist theology and liberation theology,ÃÂ ...
ChristianityToday.com
August 30, 2017
“Sadly, in the black community, we have conceded these issues either to liberation theology or to black nationalist groups like the Nation ofÃÂ ...
Patheos (blog)
August 22, 2017
... not even have a rudimentary understanding of racism and its devastating impacts, Black Muslim “liberation theology” for them is not possible.
Crux: Covering all things Catholic
August 14, 2017
... the oppressed, and Latin America's liberation theology movement, who was shot to death in El Salvador in 1980 as he was celebrating Mass.
America Magazine
August 10, 2017
... which has made significant contributions to post-Vatican II Catholicism—especially through liberation theology and the plenary meetings ofÃÂ ...
Patheos (blog)
August 8, 2017
Anticipating the basic insights of liberation theology, Tillich declared that “there are situations in which the perversion of [humanity's] essentialÃÂ ...
Global Sisters Report (blog)
August 2, 2017
Sounds like the start of a bad joke, doesn't it? Well, it actually happened. I, Tinamarie Stolz, a 20-something raging extrovert, walked throughÃÂ ...
The Electronic Intifada (blog)
August 2, 2017
Sabeel is a Palestinian Christian liberation theology organization based in Jerusalem, with affiliates around the world. The boycott, divestmentÃÂ ...
FinalCall.com News
August 1, 2017
Willie Wilson, pastor of Union Temple Baptist Church, one of the pillars of liberation theology in the Nation's capital. Since 1977, when Rev.
Pacific Standard
August 1, 2017
... caricatured as everything-and-the-kitchen-sink spirit quests, roaming across black liberation theology, Eastern mysticism, and mindfulness.
New York Times
August 1, 2017
... when Mr. Aristide was to create a broad coalition intended to temper what was viewed as his Marxist-leaning radical liberation theology.
Patheos (blog)
July 24, 2017
A squarely evangelical movement, it draws on the framework of liberation theology with a special concern for the poor and the context (aÃÂ ...
Patheos (blog)
July 18, 2017
The position of feminist liberation theology does not amount to exodus, to departure, to celebrating the goddess, but is concerned to remain trueÃÂ ...
Florida Politics (blog)
July 14, 2017
“Liberation theology,” said Gulliford, is a “form of Christian communism,” and one that Francis' “narratives and pronouncements” still echo.
WTHR
December 31, 1999
The ELN was founded by priests and seminary students inspired by liberation theology, which sought to identify the church with the poor andÃÂ ...
Jefferson Post
December 31, 1999
Carl Kenney is the executive producer of “God of the Oppressed,”an upcoming documentary that explores black liberation theology. He is theÃÂ ...
La Croix International
December 31, 1999
This formula formed the intellectual and pastoral matrix of the liberation theology which, over the next decades, went on to shape the image of aÃÂ ...
Lasentinel
December 31, 1999
... Black Arts; Black Studies; Black student union; Black youth; Black Power conference; Black liberation theology; reparations; rites of passage;ÃÂ ...
Durham Herald Sun
December 31, 1999
Carl Kenney is the executive producer of “God of the Oppressed,”an upcoming documentary that explores black liberation theology. He is theÃÂ ...
Christian Post
December 31, 1999
The problem with movements, however, is they invariably beget labels (e.g. "social gospel," "liberation theology," etc.). And labels tend to subtlyÃÂ ...
Total Croatia News
March 21, 2017
Theologian and editor Zoran Grozdanov, who recently published the Croatian translation of the book, adds: "The theology advocated by Teresa Forcades follows the best tradition of liberation theology, which puts the spotlight on issues of social justice.
Patheos (blog)
March 18, 2017
Pope Francis' coopting Liberation Theology into his People's Theology, proves that Pope Francis is "doing it wrong" (I say).
