The Hope Of Liberation In World Religions

Author : Miguel A. De La Torre
Publisher : Baylor University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Freedom (Theology)
ISBN : 9781932792508

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The Hope of Liberation in World Religions by Miguel A. De La Torre Pdf

Liberation theology emphasizes the Christian mission to bring justice to the poor and oppressed. As a part of Christian theology, liberation theology has been most frequently associated with the Catholic Church in Latin America. This groundbreaking work seeks to identify how the theological concepts of liberation theology might be manifested within other world faith traditions. This is thus the first book that attempts to find a "common ground" for liberation theology across religions. All of the contributors are scholars who share the religion or belief system they describe. Throughout, they endeavor to articulate liberationist concepts from the perspective of those who have been marginalized.

Author : Professor of Social Ethics and Latino/A Studies Miguel A de la Torre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1481314718

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The Hope of Liberation in World Religions by Professor of Social Ethics and Latino/A Studies Miguel A de la Torre Pdf

Liberation theology emphasizes the Christian mission to bring justice to the poor and oppressed. As a part of Christian theology, liberation theology has been most frequently associated with the Catholic Church in Latin America. This groundbreaking work seeks to identify how the theological concepts of liberation theology might be manifested within other world faith traditions. This is thus the first book that attempts to find a common ground for liberation theology across religions. All of the contributors are scholars who share the religion or belief system they describe. Throughout, they endeavor to articulate liberationist concepts from the perspective of those who have been marginalized.

Author : Dan Cohn-Sherbok
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015025283709

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World Religions and Human Liberation by Dan Cohn-Sherbok Pdf

Author : Mario I. Aguilar
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567502001

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Church, Liberation and World Religions by Mario I. Aguilar Pdf

This work proposes a theological investigation of the community of the Church as outlined by liberation theology and a possible conversation with liberation from suffering in Tibetan Buddhism. What unites both is the human process of sublimation for others, whereby liberation theologians as well as enlightened lamas give the best of themselves for the liberation of others. At this stage of discussions between inclusivists and exclusivists this work proposes that dialogue with world religions and therefore with Buddhism is not about finding possible dogmatic similarities but a common place, a common purpose through a common humanity.

Author : David Whitten Smith,Elizabeth Geraldine Burr
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0742550559

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Understanding World Religions by David Whitten Smith,Elizabeth Geraldine Burr Pdf

Understanding World Religions studies major worldviews in relation to justice and peace: Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Marxist, and Native American. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is given as a case study for how worldviews impact justice and peace. Further chapters explore Christian social teaching, liberation theologies, active nonviolence, and just war theory.

Author : Jung Mo Sung
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780334048695

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Desire, Market, Religion by Jung Mo Sung Pdf

Jung Mo Sung has pioneered a theological analysis of economics in his previous publications, developing a penetrating ethico-religious critique of the international capitalist systems, whose institutions he likens to altars. Where ancient idolatry had visible altars, the modern altar of the ‘global market god’, is invisible, but still demands human sacrifices in the name of ‘objective’ desires. Here Sung recovers theology’s relevance for a world where the most dangerous idols – those that sacrifice millions of people upon the altar of wealth – have for too long been ignored by theology. Desire, Market, Religion, Sung investigates themes such as the struggle against social exclusion, the relationship between economics and religion in the 21 century, where global brands and global economies reigns supreme, and theology’s role in the struggle against social exclusion and the giving of hope for plenty, when the reality is scarcity.

Author : Nicholas Laccetti
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498246224

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The Inner Church is the Hope of the World by Nicholas Laccetti Pdf

Throughout history, Western esoteric movements have provided meaning and power for what the Rosicrucians of the early modern period called the quest for "Universal Reformation"--the utopian restructuring of religion, science, the arts, and human society. Yet Western esotericism has been roundly ignored as a source of reflection in mainstream Christian theology, including the radical theologies of liberation that might otherwise see in esotericism a kindred spirit to their commitment to radical social change. In The Inner Church is the Hope of the World, guided by his work in contemporary movements for social change, Nicholas Laccetti puts Western esotericism in dialogue with liberation theology, treating esotericism as a legitimate source of spiritual and theological insight. If, as Gustavo Gutierrez writes, "God is revealed in history," then we will also encounter God within the particular history of human religious expression that is Western esotericism. And from these theological reflections, the Inner Church of the esotericists, occultists, and mystics is revealed to be the true ekklesia of all who have conformed themselves to God's vision of freedom and liberation, and who struggle to enact that vision in human society. The Inner Church is truly the hope of the world.

Author : Deane William Ferm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Religion
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173017228904

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Third World Liberation Theologies by Deane William Ferm Pdf

Author : P. Koslowski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789401727914

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Progress, Apocalypse, and Completion of History and Life after Death of the Human Person in the World Religions by P. Koslowski Pdf

The soul is so closely connected to life that one cannot think that it could ever be separated from life and, consequently, be mortal. Therefore, it can only be immortal. This argument from Plato's Phaedo for the immortality of the soul exhibits both a great strength and a great weakness. Its strength is that it is dif ficult for anyone to think that the soul could ever exist without life. Its weakness is, first, that not all religions accept a soul that remains the same as the center of the person - thus one speaks, for instance, in Buddhism of a "soulless theory of the human being" - and, second, that what is true does not depend on what we can think, but on what we recognize in experience and thought. The religions believe in the existence of a power that can work contrary to our experience that the soul in death is not separated from life. How the reli gions believe they can establish this continued life after death and how faith in this life is related in the religions to the interpretation of history, its progress, its apocalyptic end, and its eschatological completion and transfiguration is the theme of this book. In the culture of the West in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, faith in the secular progress of the technological control of nature and the economic or ganization of society was the enemy of faith in the immortality of the soul.

Author : Alfred T. Hennelly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:49015002345818

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Liberation Theologies by Alfred T. Hennelly Pdf

Individual chapters focus on the way that the origi-nal concepts of Latin American libertion theloogy have become the foundation for feminist, African-American, Hispanic, African, First World and Asian theologies of liberation.

Author : John Hick,Paul F. Knitter
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781597520249

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The Myth of Christian Uniqueness by John Hick,Paul F. Knitter Pdf

A new model of Christian theology, the 'pluralistic' model, is taking shape, moving beyond the traditional models of exclusivism (Christianity as the only true religion) and inclusivism (Christianity as the best religion) toward a view that recognizes the possibility of many valid religions. In this volume, a widely representative group of eminent Christian theologians - Protestant and Catholic, male and female, from East and West, First and Third Worlds - explores genuinely new attitudes toward other believers and traditions, expanding and refining the discussion and debate over pluralistic theology. Contributors are: Gordon D. Kaufman, John Hick, Langdon Gilkey, Wilfred Cantwell Smith, Stanley J. Samartha, Raimundo Panikkar, Seiichi Yagi, Rosemary Radford Ruether, Marjorie Jewitt Suchocki, Aloysius Pieris, Tom F. Driver, and Paul F. Knitter.

Author : Song-Chong Lee
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783038978886

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The Role and Meaning of Religion for Korean Society by Song-Chong Lee Pdf

This special issue presents discussions of the role and meaning of religion for Korean society. Covering wide-ranging time periods, the authors explores with their own cases four major characteristics of Korean religion: Creativity, Greater Responsiveness, Adaptability, and Prophethood. Their topical religious traditions include Neo-Confucianism, Christianity, Buddhism, and Korean new religious movements.

Author : Robert Hernan Cubillos
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498222839

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Faith, Hope, and Love in the Kingdom of God by Robert Hernan Cubillos Pdf

We live in a world full of challenges. The three graces can almost be seen as motors for Christian life in today's world, but the words faith, hope, and love have so many everyday uses that their technical, theological meanings are, for many, difficult to appreciate. Modern life also leaves many yearning for authenticity and meaning. Many religions have answered that need by calling to mind the image of a path. Always profound progressions, religious paths tend to be motivated either by practices (the act of walking the path) or focal points. Christianity has a focal point, an object, and it sees the three graces as distinctively content filled. The heart of this book is about helping people find the Christian path and their intellectual, emotional, and spiritual balance--an equilibrium that is sustained by a strong personal faith, an enduring hope for the future, and genuine love that will withstand the worst of times. It contributes to the category of Christian literature that provides a pattern for Christian living without surrendering the intellect to the more popular side of this genre.

Author : P. Koslowski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789401597890

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The Origin and the Overcoming of Evil and Suffering in the World Religions by P. Koslowski Pdf

All religions face the challenge of explaining, in view of God's goodness, the existence of evil and suffering in the world. They must develop theories of the origin and the overcoming of evil and suffering. The explanations in Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism of evil and suffering and their origin, as well as these world religions' theories of how to overcome evil and suffering, differ from one another, but are also similar in many respects. The human person is always considered to be the origin of evil, and also to be the focus of aspirations to be able to overcome it. The conviction that evil and suffering are not original and can be overcome is characteristic of and common to the religions. The explanations of the origin of evil are closely related to the explanations of the continuation and propagation of evil in human persons, in nature, and in our technology and culture that have been developed in the religions - in Christianity, for example, as the doctrine of original sin. Finally, the world religions are concerned with how to cope with suffering and offer guidance for overcoming evil and suffering. Leading scholars of five world religions, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, Judaism, and Hinduism, have created with this volume a first-hand source of information, which enables the reader to gain a better understanding of these religions' central teachings about the origin and the overcoming of evil and suffering.

Author : Hussam S. Timani,Loye Sekihata Ashton
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783030273088

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Post-Christian Interreligious Liberation Theology by Hussam S. Timani,Loye Sekihata Ashton Pdf

This book explores the ideals of liberation theology from the perspectives of major religious traditions, including Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, and the neo-Vedanta and Advaita Hindu traditions. The goal of this volume is not to explain the Christian liberation theology tradition and then assess whether the non-Christian liberation theologies meet the Christian standards. Rather, authors use comparative/interreligious methodologies to offer new insights on liberation theology and begin a dialogue on how to build interreligious liberation theologies. The goal is to make liberation theology more inclusive of religious diversity beyond traditional Christian categories.