Showing posts with label liberation theology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label liberation theology. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 30, 2019

James Cone, Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody, on What It Is to Be Black in America Today: What U.S. White Christians Refuse to Hear

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Here is more from James Cone's book Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2018) which glosses what I posted...
Saturday, August 27, 2016

Where Have All the Christian Intellectuals Gone? (Does Anyone Remember John Paul's and Ratzinger's Purge of Catholic Theologians?)

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It's a thing now among journalists and religion commentators to ask what has happened to the public intellectuals of the churches...
Monday, May 23, 2016

Quote for Day: "Liberal Christians Often Pay Lip Service to Many Politically Radical Christian Thinkers and Activists While Lining Up Behind the Political and Economic Forces That They Fought Against"

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At Religion Dispatches , Daniel José Camacho responds to a recent article at the same venue by Ruth Graham which argues that liberal...
Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Why Wheaton College Is Really Going After Dr. Larycia Hawkins: The Full Story Begins to Emerge

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Several days ago, I took note of  Wheaton College's firing of its controversial tenured theology professor, Dr. Larycia Hawkins. ...
Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Beverly Wildung Harrison on Connections Between Racism and Misogyny, and Story of Donald Sterling: These -Isms Hang Together in Web of Patriarchy

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Recently, when I wrote about Andrew Sullivan's take on Jonathan Rauch's essay  calling for special tolerance for those who ...
Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Liberation Theology Founder Gustavo Gutiérrez on Legacy of Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI: "Ratzinger Was More of a Theologian"

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The Iglesia Descalza blog offers an English translation of an interview with the founder of Latin American liberation theology, Gus...
Saturday, March 1, 2014

More Brief Takes from Week's News: Pope Francis, Catholic Reform, and Liberation Theology

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More brief takes from the past week's news--these focusing on discussions of Pope Francis and the Vatican:
Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Angela Bonavoglia's To-Do-List on Women for Pope Francis, with Theological Reflections from Ivone Gebara

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At Huffington Post, Angela Bonavoglia has published  a very fine open letter to Pope Francis entitled "For Pope Francis: A To-Do L...
Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Sister Teresa Forcades Receiving Increased Attention as Leading European Public Intellectual (as Pope Francis Meets with Gustavo Gutiérrez)

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I've been writing about the Catalan Benedictine nun Teresa Forcades for some time now, since I discovered her last year via Rebe...
Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Another Liberation Theologian Critiques New Papal Encyclical on Faith: Juan Jose Tamayo on Disappointment of Lumen Fidei

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Juan Jose Tamayo I was so far behind with responding to comments to postings here, that I've spent my normal blogging time this...
Monday, April 8, 2013

Friends of Pope Francis: The Poor Will "Convert Him Completely," the Church Will Have a Different Face

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One of the unexpected gifts of the new pope to the church is this: after having been under a shadow during the last two papacies, aft...
Saturday, March 30, 2013

Lent, Easter, Jesus and the Victims of History: A Meditation

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Lent ends today, and it's my 63rd birthday, and I find myself in much the same place in which I was as my 60th birthday approache...
Thursday, March 21, 2013

More Testimony about Pope Francis from Leading Liberation Theologians

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As the work week ends, I want to point readers to two more good statements about Pope Francis by highly regarded liberation theologia...
Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Mary Hunt on Theology and Consequences: An Initial Response to Pope Francis

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And on the theme of the significance of the new pope in general--beyond particular issues like the dirty war and gay marriage--Catholic t...
Monday, March 18, 2013

More Responses to Francis: Clelia Luro, Jon Sobrino, Jamie Manson, James Keenan

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More valuable commentary on the new pope that has caught my eye as the day has gone on: 
Friday, March 15, 2013

Quote for the Day: A Tempus Loquendi

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Carlos Gamerro writing in the Wall Street Journal  in a statement entitled "Pope Francis, the Disappeared, and the Questions Th...

Pope Francis: More Testimony to Be Considered

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And yet more commentary--this by way of corroboration of the primary testimony of the three key pieces of testimony to which I just p...

Commentary on New Pope: Three Voices That Stand Out for Me

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Amidst the torrent of commentary that has appeared in the last two days about the new pope, several pieces have stuck out for me. I...
Thursday, March 14, 2013

The Symbolic Imperative of the Papacy Under Pope Francis: Kenotic Atonement

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As often happens, I’m feeling considerably out of step with much that’s being said following the election of Cardinal Bergoglio as p...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013

John Allen on Background of Pope Francis

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John Allen's write-up on Cardinal Bergoglio at NCR : according to Allen,