scholarly journals BOOK REVIEW: A Theology of Liberation. By Gustavo Gutierrez. Maryknoll, Orbis Books, 1988. XLVI+174 pp., ISBN 0-88344-542-5 (pbk.)

2018 ◽  
pp. 160-167
Author(s):  
А. Denisenko
Keyword(s):  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Gustavo Gutierrez ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Theological Study ◽  
Influential Book ◽  
Theology Of Liberation

The subject of the new kind of theology which arose in 1960’s and 1970’s been and still is much disputed issue. Here I mean liberation theology and the most influential book in this particular kind of theology, A Theology of Liberation by Gustavo Gutierrez. Time clamed this book as "The movement's most influential text.This book is a classical historical and theological study. It represents the new fresh wind in the history of theological study.

A Brief History of Theosemiotic

Theosemiotic ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 15-42
Author(s):  
Michael L. Raposa
Keyword(s):  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Latin American ◽  
William James ◽  
Jonathan Edwards ◽  
Historical Survey ◽  
Causal Influence ◽  
Gustavo Gutierrez ◽  
Book Of Nature ◽  
Religious Significance ◽  
History Of

This chapter supplies a historical survey of theosemiotic, focused less on demonstrating actual lines of causal influence than on exposing the resonance of certain ideas articulated by thinkers sometimes far removed from each other in space and time. It links Peirce’s thought to that of earlier figures (like Augustine, Duns Scotus, John Poinsot, Jonathan Edwards, and Ralph Waldo Emerson), certain contemporaries (especially William James and Josiah Royce), and later thinkers and developments (most notably, H. Richard Niebuhr, Simone Weil, and Gustavo Gutierrez). The chapter begins with an examination of the religious significance of talk about the “book of nature” and concludes with the observation of a certain natural affinity between a theosemiotic inspired by Peirce’s pragmatism and Latin American liberation theology.

scholarly journals Book Review - Development Communication: Reframing the Role of Media

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilson Halder
Keyword(s):  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Cultural Imperialism ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Development Communication ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Participatory Communication ◽  
History Of Development ◽  
History Of

Development Communication: Reframing the Role of Media is a book that offers an overview of the history of development communication while exploring the main actors of the field and world culture.The author, Thomas McPhail, has written a book with a strong theoretical focus on development communication studies ranging from modernization theories to the movements of liberation theology to participatory communication, cultural imperialism and education-entertainment. Readers will find this book useful for understanding past, present and possible future directions of the development communication field. 

A. T. Bryant and ‘The Wars of Shaka’

1991 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 409-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Wright
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Population Migrations ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Explosive Expansion ◽  
Influential Book ◽  
Eastern Half

Olden Times in Zululand and Natal …depends primarily on tribal lore garnered during four decades of exhaustive interviews with native elders.…[I]t is safe to say [Bryant's] work will never be exceeded. Almost everything published on the subject since depends on him.…This paper needs to be read against the background of the critique which has gradually been gathering force over the last half-dozen years or so of the concept of the mfecane. By the mfecane is meant the idea that in the 1820s much of the eastern half of southern Africa was thrown into turmoil by a series of wars and population migrations set in motion by the explosive expansion of the Zulu state under Shaka. Ever since Theal first popularized it in the late nineteenth century, this idea has remained one of the bedrock concepts around which the history of southern Africa in the later eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century has been written. The term mfecane itself did not become widely used until as recently as 1966, when, in his widely influential book, The Zulu Aftermath, Omer-Cooper repackaged what had previously been called “the wars of Shaka” for an emerging Africanist readership. Since then the concept of the mfecane has permeated the literature, both popular and academic, inside and outside southern Africa, to the point where it is regarded as a fixed fact of the sub-continent's history.

scholarly journals PORTRAIT OF A POLITICAL LIBERATION THEOLOGIAN: LIBERATION THEOLOGY AND THE MAKING OF ABEL MUZOREWA’S AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SUBJECTIVITY IN RISE UP AND WALK

Imbizo ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-109
Author(s):  
Hazel Tafadzwa Ngoshi
Keyword(s):  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Practical Theology ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Narrative Discourse ◽  
Textual Production ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Liberation Theologian

 Autobiographical subjects are products of their experiential histories, memories, agency and the discourses of their time lived and time of textual production. This article explores the religious and political discursive economy in which Abel Muzorewa (former Prime Minister of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia) narrates the story of his life and how this discursive context constructs his autobiographical subjectivity. The article examines how Muzorewa’s religious beliefs – com­bined with his experiential history of being a colonial subject – are deployed as a strategy of constructing his subjectivity. I argue that the discursive contexts of mass nationalism and his Christian religious beliefs grounded in Latin American liberation theology construct both Mu­zorewa as the subject of Rise up and walk and the narrative discourse. The article posits that the narrative tropes derived from Christian texts that Muzorewa deploys mediate his identity, and that his selfhood emerges with the unfolding of the narrative. What he claims to be politi­cal pragmatism on his part is also inspired by the practical theology which he subscribes to. I argue that his subjectivity is complexly realised through the contradictory relationship between missionary theology and liberation theology.

Liberation Theology and the Captivities of Jesus

Worldview ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 41-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard J. Neuhaus
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
University Students ◽  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Latin American ◽  
North American ◽  
National Union ◽  
Gustavo Gutierrez ◽  
Catholic University ◽  
Systematic Effort ◽  
Theology Of Liberation

Gustavo Gutierrez is a native of Peru and professor of theology at the Catholic University of Peru. He is also chaplain to the National Union of Catholic University Students and advisor to the Latin American Bishops Conference. Gutierrez is widely credited with having coined the term "liberation theology," and with the recent publication of his A Theology of Liberation (Orbis; 323 pp.; $7.95/4.95) North American readers are challenged by a major systematic effort to articulate the meaning of the Christian gospel in terms attuned to the revolutionary ferment in Latin America.

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