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Liberation Theology Flashcards

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Liberation theology is any theology that:

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1) examines the suffering of a particular oppressed group

2) seeks to change or transform the conditions and structures that gave rise to the oppression

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What is top down theology?

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Starts with God and moves down to our personal experience

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What is bottom up theology?

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Starts with our lived experience then God

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What does liberation theology deal with?

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Social sin

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What is social sin? What does it include?

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Sin that exists freely in society around us. It includes racism, sexism, and a punitive attitude toward the poor

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What is praxis?

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A transforming action which rise from reflection and putting one’s faith in action. This is how liberation theology is done.

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What is praxis done with?

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Faith & praxis are done together and rise out of a concrete commitment to the KOG, justice, peace, compassion, solidarity, and the option for the poor

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What comes 2nd in liberation theology?

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Theology comes 2nd, and praxis must happen 1st. We must begin by helping the poor and only later do we discuss what it means theoretically

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Liberation theology was born in the 1960s from:

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1) the massive suffering and oppression of the majority of the people in Latin America
2) the documents of Vatican 2 especially Gaudiun Et Spea
3) pope Paul the 6th’s encyclical population progressio

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Where did the major ideas of LT grow out of?

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In 1968, the Latin American bishops met at a conference in Medellian, Columbia to discuss the church in Latin America

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What did father Gustavo Gutierrez say about our connection to the KOG?

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It rises out of our commitment to make a world of equality and justice for all

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The central themes of Medellian were:

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1) the poor and justice
2) love of our brothers and sisters
3) peace in a situation of institutional violence
4) the oneness of history
5) the political dimension of faith

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What did LT emphasize?

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Jesus of Nazareth over the Christ of faith

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What does traditional theology emphasize?

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Charity, but LT emphasizes justice

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What did LT shift the focus from?

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The Christ of faith to the historical Jesus

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What did Gutierrez and Boff both regularly discuss?

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How the poor and marginalized were treated as non persons

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What does LT remind us?

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That true discipleship costs and it calls us to act as a force of change in the world

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What is one of the beautiful things of LT?

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Those who work with the poor come to see themselves as equal to the poor

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What are LT theologians often interested in/more open to?

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Dialogue with other faiths as their goal is helping the poor to proving their “truth” over another

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LT has 9 key themes:

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1) a living and true faith must include the practice of liberation
2) the living God sides with the oppressed against the pharaohs of the world
3) the kingdom is God’s project in history & eternity
4) Jesus, the son of God, took on oppression to set us free
5) the Holy Spirit is present in the struggles of the oppressed
6) Mary is a prophetic and liberating woman of the church
7) the church is a sign and an instrument of liberation
8) the rights of the poor are God’s rights
9) liberated human potential becomes liberative

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What does LT claim?

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Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a world of exploitation and oppression

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What does LT distinguish between?

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2 types of Christians: authentic Christian & cultural Christian

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What is authentic Christian?

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Someone who values what Jesus valued

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What is cultural Christian?

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Someone who isn’t threatening. They don’t question war, society, the economy, or how the world works. They are primarily concerned with sexuality and a Jesus who died for their sins

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What do we have to make?

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A choice to side with the poor

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What is preferential option for the poor?

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A term popularized by Gutierrez that says God has a preference for those people who are “insignificant”, “marginalized”, unimportant, needy, despised, and defenseless

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What does Gutierrez stress?

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The term “the poor” in scripture has social and economic implications

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Who is the father of BLT?

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James Hal Cone

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Who is the mother of womanist theology or feminist BLT?

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Deloris Williams

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When did BLT arise?

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In the u.s. in 1969, primarily in response to the failure of whit theologians to relate the gospel to the pain of being black in a white, racist society

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What is prejudice?

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The act of making certain negative Judgements about an individual because of the group to which he/she belongs. This is the personal and individual form of this sin

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What is racism?

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Understood to be discrimination of a whole racial group. You systematically exclude another race from the political, economic, and social power. This is the institutional and structural form of the sin and requires power to enforce

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What does BLT affirm?

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While programs has been made In the political arena, an economic gap still exists between white Americans and the minority populations

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What did James Hal Cone say?

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In an oppressed situation, there can never be nonpartisan theology

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What is BLT born from?

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The message of the Hebrew & Christian scripture as well as radical African American politics of the 1960s.

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What doesn’t BLT focus on?

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BLT doesn’t focus exclusively on the poor, so much as your neighbor

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What did Thomas Aquinas one say about women?

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Women are misbegotten males

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What did Martin Luther say about women?

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Women were made for procreation and they are subordinate to men

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Until Vatican 2 what was theological anthropology called?

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The doctrine of man

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What did Valerie Savino say?

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Agape(self sacrificing love) is more appropriate for men who need to be more other-centered. Women on the other hand need to focus on finding their identity

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What is the major male sin? Female sin?

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Male- pride

Women- undevelopment of the self

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What did Savino say about temptations?

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Women’s temptations are different then mens

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What Does feminist LT challenge?

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The universality of men and calls men to acknowledge an epistemological (study of knowledge) humility

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What does ALT tend to have?

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A smaller voice than the other branches

45
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What % of Asians identify themselves as Christians?

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2.5%

46
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What is the only Asian country that has a Christian majority?

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The Philippines

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What is a major issue for ALT?

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Respecting religious pluralism

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What did rosemary radford ruther say?

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All human beings posses a full and equal nature of personhood as males and females

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What do we think of the world as according to FLT?

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In male terms and in male categories and we must overcome that

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What does FLT stress?

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That all people are embodied. We are all made equally in the image of God

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What is complementary anthropology

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By nature women and men are given certain qualities that compliment one another. For example, men are rational & women are emotional. Men are strong, women are weak. Men are active, women are passive. This is the traditional anthropological way of thinking

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What is multipolar anthropology?

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We all have cultural and physical constraints like sex, race, education, sexual anthropology, health, ethnic background etc, that shape who we are. If you change one or them, you change the whole person. All of these factors are equal In determining who you are

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What illustrates the male bias in FLT?

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Everything from an understanding of “mankind” to calling God “father” & “he”

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