The Ecclesiology of Stanley Hauerwas: A Christian Theology of Liberation By John B. Thomson: Burlington, VT, Ashgate, 2003. 245 pp. $84.95

2005 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 276-280
Author(s):  
Gerard Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Christian Theology ◽  
Stanley Hauerwas ◽  
Theology Of Liberation

scholarly journals A Teologia da Libertação e a questão de seus fundamentos. Em debate com Clodovis Boff

2019 ◽  
Vol 68 (270) ◽  
pp. 277
Author(s):  
Luiz Carlos Susin ◽  
Érico João Hammes
Keyword(s):  
Linear Logic ◽  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Hermeneutic Circle ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Theology Of Liberation

Este artigo debate com Clodovis Boff as suas afirmações de que a Teologia da Libertação acabou por inverter a relação entre Deus e o pobre, colocando o pobre no lugar de Cristo. Em réplica, aqui sustentamos que o pobre não é apenas uma decorrência cristológica, mas antes um “lugar teológico” privilegiado para compreender Cristo e Deus do ponto de vista da teologia cristã, inclusive seu teste de veracidade. O artigo debate também a metodologia de Clodovis, que segue uma lógica linear, de sabor escolástico, e não considera suficientemente a complexidade do círculo hermenêutico e a tradição bíblica que obriga a incorporar o paradoxo e o escândalo da quenose como categoria bíblica. Por fim, a categoria de quenose não pode se ater a uma memória textual, mas entra em círculo hermenêutico com a quenose atual dos pobres e de todos os que estão em situação de vulnerabilidade, aos quais é dado o Reino de Deus.Abstract: This article engages in a debate with Clodovis Boff with regard to his statements that the Theology of Liberation, by replacing Christ with the poor, ended by inverting the relationship between God and the poor. In refutation of this, we affirm here that the poor are not just a christological consequence but more a privileged “theological place” to understand Christ and God from the point of view of christian theology, and even to test their veracity. The article also disputes Clodovis’ methodology which, in our view, follows a linear logic of a somewhat scholastic flavour, and does not take into sufficient consideration the complexity of the hermeneutic circle and the biblical tradition that forces us to incorporate the paradox and the scandal of the kenosis as a biblical category. Finally the category of kenosis cannot be limited to a textual memory; it enters into a hermeneutic circle with the present kenosis of the poor and of all those who are still in a situation of vulnerability and to whom the Kingdom of God is given.

scholarly journals Toward an Analytic Theology of Liberation

2020 ◽  
pp. 47-74
Author(s):  
Sameer Yadav
Keyword(s):  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Relative Lack ◽  
Moral Encroachment ◽  
Theology Of Liberation

This chapter attempts to diagnose and critique the relative lack of interest in liberation theology as a research programme in analytic theology. After offering analyses of what constitutes ‘analytic theology’ and ‘liberation’ theology respectively and showing that the two are compatible, I argue that the epistemic good theology seeks—that of producing true explanatory theories—is subject to pragmatic and moral encroachment by other sorts of goods, including the good of serving the needs of the oppressed in society. Accordingly, I conclude that Christian theology ought to recognize liberatory interests as a norm of theological inquiry, and that instances of Christian analytic theology that are not also instances of liberation theology ought to be regarded as instances of bad theology.

scholarly journals 50 años de historia espiritual con la opción por los pobres

2018 ◽  
Vol 78 (309) ◽  
pp. 123
Author(s):  
José María Vigil
Keyword(s):  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Deep Ecology ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Characteristic Element ◽  
Utopian Vision ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Liberation Spirituality ◽  
Theology Of Liberation

Medellín fue el momento fundante de la espiritualidad y la teología de la liberación, y su elemento más característico: la opción por los pobres. Los 50 años transcurridos han sido de una espiritualidad muy intensa, por el surgimiento de una nueva eclesialidad, la asunción de la conflictividad inherente al seguimiento de Jesús, una mística martirial... El Autor subraya el carácter espiritual de esta historia, recordando momentos memorables, como la visión sociológico-utópica de Gottwald, el final de la “arqueologia bíblica” clásica, la superación del carácter provinciano de la teología cristiana de la liberación, la apertura al horizonte de la ecologia profunda... y el encuentro reciente con los últimos nuevos paradigmas, que muestran que esta aventura espiritual tiene todavía mucho quehacer por delante.Abstract: Medellín was the founding moment of liberation spirituality and theology, and its most characteristic element: the option for the poor. These 50 years have been of a very intense spirituality, because of the emergence of a new ecclesiality, the assumption of the inherent conflictivity of the following of Jesus, the martyrial mystic... The author emphasizes the spiritual character of this journey, recalling memorable moments, like the sociological-utopian vision of Gottwald, the end of classical “biblical archeology”, the overcoming of the parochial character of the ‘Christian’ theology of liberation, the opening to the horizon of deep ecology ... and the recent encounter with the last new paradigms, which show that this spiritual adventure still has much to do ahead.Keywords: Medellín; Spirituality of liberation; Theology of liberation; Option for the poor; Paradigms.

Praxis and Theology in Recent Debates

1986 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 529-550
Author(s):  
A. K. Min
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
The Other ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Preceding Discussion ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One ◽  
Theology Of Liberation

One Of the many challenges of the theology of liberation of Latin America (TL or LT) has been to rethink the relation between theory (theology) and praxis. A debate, which has been going on for over a century among philosophers and social thinkers since Hegel and Marx has finally hit the serene shores of Christian theology. Are theory and praxis two co-equal dimensions of human existence, or is the one derivative from the other? Is Christian faith primarily a matter of theory, belief and truth, or is it primarily a matter of praxis, action and justice? Is theology only a reflection on faith or a reflection in faith as well? What is the relation between theology and contemporary historical praxis? Does theology have to remain ‘external’ to that praxis in order to preserve its critical objectivity, or is participation of theology in that praxis the very condition of its objectivity? Is the prior commitment of theology— so much insisted on by TL — to the praxis of liberation detrimental or necessary to the integrity of theology? In this essay I propose to deal with these issues in the context of recent debates between Schubert Ogden and the Vatican on the one hand and TL on the other. I shall first review Ogden's and the Vatican's critique of TL, then present the position of TL, and finally evaluate both TL and its critics and reconstruct a theory of the relation between theology and praxis in light of the preceding discussion.

Against Invisibility: Negritude and the Awakening of the African Voice in Theology

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-92
Author(s):  
Adam Clark
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Early Development ◽  
Black Identity ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
African Theology ◽  
The Awakening ◽  
Philosophical Movement ◽  
African Socialism ◽  
Theology Of Liberation

This paper discusses the emergence of Negritude and its contribution to the early development of African theology. The Negritude movement of the 1930s and 40s understands itself as a literary and philosophical movement that responds to colonial domination. It awakened a cultural voice African priests used to become legible in the discipline of Christian theology. Negritude was a contested category. For some, it was nothing more than a nativist philosophy that promoted a metaphysic of race; for others, Negritude was an initiative to recover African cultural values. This paper traces the Senghorian tradition of Negritude that began as a philosophy of black identity but evolved into a mode of thought that inspired blacks to reimagine African alternatives to the colonial state. Senghor's proposal of African socialism was a component of the broader struggle that influenced the development of a theology of liberation in Africa.

Latin American Liberation Theology and Postcolonial Studies

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 313-349
Author(s):  
Roberto Puggioni
Keyword(s):  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Western World ◽  
Theology Of Liberation

Abstract This paper argues in favour of the need of a continuous decolonisation and contextualisation of theology. Global capitalism, modernity, and the persistent colonial attitudes of the Western world are the phenomena in which to frame the presence of striking inequalities among and within countries. By assuming a liberationist standpoint, the analysis points at the convergence in methods and scopes of the Western postcolonial thought and the Latin American Christian theology of liberation for an effective decolonisation of theology. Liberation, with all its implications, becomes the key term through which to understand this relationship.

An Introduction to Christian Theology

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard J. Plantinga ◽  
Thomas R. Thompson ◽  
Matthew D. Lundberg
Keyword(s):  
Christian Theology

The Old Man in Purgatory: The Indian Part in Yeats's Vision of Salvation

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 251-268
Author(s):  
Yeeyon Im
Keyword(s):  
Indian Philosophy ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Special Treatment ◽  
Christian Perspective ◽  
Selfless Action

This essay examines Yeats's Purgatory via A Vision, in an attempt to understand his view of salvation in particular relation to Indian philosophy. Read from a Christian perspective, Purgatory may be a work far from purgation, as T. S. Eliot once complained. I wish to show in this essay that Purgatory indeed places emphasis on purgation by a negative example, if in a different way from the Catholic one. Yeats denies the linear eschatology of Christian theology as well as its doctrine of salvation in eternal heaven. In A Vision, Yeats explains his view of the afterlife of the soul, which involves purgation through ‘the Dreaming Back’. The special treatment of the Old Man renders Purgatory a meta-purgatorial play that mirrors the Dreaming Back of his mother's spirit in the Old Man's, intensifying the theme of purgation. Purgatory effectively dramatizes the inability to forgive and cast out remorse: the impossibility of nishikam karma, or selfless action, to borrow Sanskrit terms, which is essential for Yeatsian salvation. Finally, I would also emphasize Yeats's deviation from the Hindu wisdom, which makes Yeats's vision uniquely his own.

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