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May 2, 2018 · If racism was and is America’s original sin, and repentance is the only sufficient response to sin, James Cone was the most important theologian of his generation. To white Americans, he said ...
- A Long History of Liberation
- What Is Liberation Theology?
- In What Context Did Liberation Theology Arise?
- What Is Liberation Theology’s Lens For Seeing Truth?
- Is It True That It’S Naïve to Try to Find The Author’S Intended Meaning?
- According to God, Is It Important to Help The Poor?
- Is Helping The Poor The Centerpiece of The Gospel?
- So, Is Liberation Theology A Thing of The Past?
- Learning from Recent Versions of Liberation Theology
Any open-minded person reading through the Bible will see quite a few references to how God cares about lifting up the poor and oppressed. When the Jews had suffered in slavery under the Egyptians, God’s compassion was aroused. In the Exodus, he rescued the Jews while plaguing and impoverishing the Egyptians in a grand reversal of fortunes. Then, a...
When you’re living in luxury, it can be easy to ignore the themes and passages of poverty alleviation in the Bible. That was not a problem for the first liberation theologians, who were living in a Latin American context riddled with poverty. They watched the destitution not getting better in these Christianized lands and wondered, shouldn’t their ...
In understanding liberation theology, it’ll be helpful for me to describe the world into which liberation theology was birthed. It was Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s. Here were some hallmarks of the time and place: 1. Poverty and hunger were common. 2. The countries were heavily Catholic. 3. Vatican II had pivoted Catholicism to a more open s...
If you’re a Protestant, you’re part of a Christian tradition which has attempted to ground its convictions in Scripture alone (sola Scriptura). If you’re a Catholic, then your church has historically grounded its convictions in both Scripture andits own sacred tradition. In liberation theology, there is room for the insights of Scripture and the te...
The truth is, it is possible (and worthwhile) to try to figure out what an author was saying—and all the more so when we’re talking about God’sWord. I mean, you could tryto read this article through a particular lens that takes priority over what I’m actually trying to communicate. Let’s say you feel that environmental care of the earth is such a p...
The answer to whether or not God cares about people living in poverty should be uncontroversial. There are many Scriptures which underscore how important it is for God’s people to care for the poor, and the following is a sampling. Here are two of several Old Testament passages where God rebukes those who mistreat the poor who are being taken advan...
I’m convinced that to go so far as to make “God’s preferential option for the poor” the overriding lens for how we read Scripture is reckless. Even when the Bible is talking about how people use their finances, giving to the poor is only one of many obligations mentioned. Here are some additional directions we are given when it comes to finances: “...
However utopian it sounds in theory, Marxism has never turned out well when implemented nationwide. For a sobering first-person look at how Marxism devastated one country (and how the same ideas are being encouraged in the Western world), I highly encourage you to check out this articleby Christian Ray Flores. Just because we know from Christianity...
Whereas earlier liberation theologians were cynical toward comfortable church leaders interpreting the Bible in ways that benefit them, later liberation theologians became more cynical toward the Bible itself. Feminist theology, for example, actively applies a “hermeneutics of suspicion” in reading the Bible, accusing its authors of writing through...
Aug 11, 2018 · The God of the mother and child, the “captive,” is speaking in a different voice from that representing a policy that characterizes the oppressed as the embodiment of undocumented immigrants ...
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May 16, 2012 · Beyond this emphasis on the “black experience,” Cone suggested that a significant message of biblical theology is liberation from oppression. He wrote, “The God of the biblical faith and black religion is best known as the Liberator of the oppressed from bondage. . . . To resist evil is to participate in God’s redemption of the world.”
Dec 15, 2022 · Other exodus movements, such as those identified with black liberation theology in North America and liberation theology in Latin America, appropriated the exodus motif theologically, in the sense of liberating one’s outlook, raising one’s consciousness, and demanding justice on behalf of the poor and oppressed.
Mar 19, 2020 · Abstract. James Cone uses Scripture primarily to defend the liberation of the oppressed as the central metanarrative of the Bible. This article shifts the focus from God’s privileging of the poor to God’s opposition to the oppressor. Using an intertextual analysis of Prov 3:34, the article focuses on God’s opposition to the proud and what ...
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Living through the actual experience of the protest, nonviolence became more than a method to which I gave intellectual assent; it became a commitment to a way of life. Many of the things that I had not cleared up intellectually concerning nonviolence were now solved in the sphere of practical action. 15. 1.
