Download or read book Liberating Exegesis written by Christopher Rowland and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important book provides a sampling of liberation theology's use of biblical texts, relating it to the "standard" methods of interpretation in Europe and America. Divided into four sections, the book sets out contemporary readings of the parable of Jesus influenced by a liberationist perspective; identifies the biblical and theoretical foundations of liberation theology, comparing them with the dominant exegetical paradigm in the first world; explores the way in which liberation exegesis affects reading the canonical accounts of Jesus; and argues that liberation theology cannot be seen solely as a third-world phenomenon.
Download or read book The Liberating Philosophy of Ignacio Ellacur a written by Luis Arturo Martínez Vásquez and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Liberating Philosophy of Ignacio Ellacuría: Historical Reality, Humanism, and Praxis is the first systematic work on the philosophy of Ignacio Ellacuría to be published in English so far. The Spaniard-Salvadorian philosopher—murdered in Salvador in 1989 by the military—maintains that philosophy is a permanent task grounded in metaphysics as first philosophy, as developed within a historical reality and a preferential option for the poor. As explored by this collection edited by Luis Arturo Martínez Vásquez, Randall Carrera Umaña, and Luis Rubén Díaz Cepeda, Ellacuría's theory is a critical and practical proposal immersed in the colonial history of Central America, but its explanatory and normative power extends to oppressed people all around the world. The contributors to this volume, coming from Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Salvador, and Costa Rica, analyze Ellacuría's philosophy of liberation in conjunction with radical realism and strength, describing it as "a philosophy created by people concerned with the problems and history of our land—such as our colonial past, systemic poverty and dependency—and… responding to these concerns can offer alternatives for a true liberation of all the dominated peoples of the world."
Download or read book Decolonizing Wealth written by Edgar Villanueva and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decolonizing Wealth is a provocative analysis of the dysfunctional colonial dynamics at play in philanthropy and finance. Award-winning philanthropy executive Edgar Villanueva draws from the traditions from the Native way to prescribe the medicine for restoring balance and healing our divides. Though it seems counterintuitive, the philanthropic industry has evolved to mirror colonial structures and reproduces hierarchy, ultimately doing more harm than good. After 14 years in philanthropy, Edgar Villanueva has seen past the field's glamorous, altruistic façade, and into its shadows: the old boy networks, the savior complexes, and the internalized oppression among the “house slaves,” and those select few people of color who gain access. All these funders reflect and perpetuate the same underlying dynamics that divide Us from Them and the haves from have-nots. In equal measure, he denounces the reproduction of systems of oppression while also advocating for an orientation towards justice to open the floodgates for a rising tide that lifts all boats. In the third and final section, Villanueva offers radical provocations to funders and outlines his Seven Steps for Healing. With great compassion—because the Native way is to bring the oppressor into the circle of healing—Villanueva is able to both diagnose the fatal flaws in philanthropy and provide thoughtful solutions to these systemic imbalances. Decolonizing Wealth is a timely and critical book that preaches for mutually assured liberation in which we are all inter-connected.
Download or read book Liberating the Will of Australia written by Geoffrey Burn and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do many First People in Australia find themselves continually under siege? Why do many interventions fail to produce what was hoped for? Why is it that, when there have been many positive developments, at some deep level, nothing seems to have changed? Will the “Uluru Statement from the Heart” ensure the future security of the First Peoples in Australia? By developing strands from Christian theology, Liberating the Will of Australia answers these questions in a way that gets to the heart of the problem. It is shown that the way that the First Peoples were treated by the first European in-comers became an indelible part of what Australia currently is. This explains why harm is often done even when good is intended, and why some problems are too complex to solve. But that does not mean that we need to be stuck in the past: through deep repentance by the “Subsequent Peoples,” much more than an apology, we can take hold of the work of God to bring new things out of what is broken. Ultimately, this is profoundly hopeful. Although focusing on Australia, the theological tools developed can be applied in other colonial and post-colonial contexts.
Download or read book 9 Steps to Financial Freedom written by Dr. John Demartini and published by Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media. This book was released on 2024-08-13 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s time to build your fortune! If your goal is to have your passive income exceed your active income so that you’re free to do what you love, meaning you work because you love to, not because you have to, then let John Demartini teach you the proven psychology and strategies for wealth building. He offers inspiring insights on how to master the inner mindset of wise investing, effective and efficient strategies for creating money making opportunities, a step by step pathway for amassing a great fortune, and the truth about instant gratifying speculations fantasies. Demartini created these 9 financial mastery tools to help you build your fortune: Nine essential questions to know the answer determining if you are truly committed to wealth building and financial independence. Six steps to wealth building that raise the probability of you following through the proven strategies of wealth building. Dr John Demartini’s Forced Accelerated Savings and Investment Techniques. The differences between saving, investing and speculating, including non-zero sum gains. The proven key to increasing profit margins. The compound interest effect which is often overlooked by most who claim to be investors. The mindset of the wealthy entrepreneur and their hierarchy of values. Individual trouble shooting to help you breakthrough previous conscious or unconscious beliefs that are misleading and limiting. The subordination effect and how it can hold you Whether you want to scale up or start a new business, whatever stage your business evolution is at, this book will teach you how to have an ever expanding source of income, to be saved and invested to build your financial independence.
Download or read book Liberating the Church written by Howard A. Snyder and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 1996-12-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Church gets into trouble whenever it thinks it is in the church business rather than the Kingdom business. In the church business, people are concerned with Kingdom activities, all human behavior and everything God has made.... Church people think about how to get people into the church; Kingdom people think about how to get the church into the world.
Download or read book Liberating the Future written by Joerg Rieger and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume illustrious liberation theologians succinctly map the liberation terrain for the new century. Writing from a variety of standpoints - the African American community, feminist struggles, and social locations in Europe, North America, and Latin America - these leading thinkers reflect on the vastly changed context of and challenges to liberation. Their reflections directly address the new situation, especially the emergence of a global market economy, shifting structures of oppression, and the advent of multiculturalism and postmodernism.
Download or read book The Poor Man s Guide to Financial Freedom written by Nikolai Vladivostok and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A no-nonsense, 10-step guide to reaching financial freedom on a modest income, from a man who did it himself.Do you have a low to medium income, and have little idea how to manage your money to get ahead? This book is for you. A high income is not what leads to financial freedom. Only being able to manage the money you've got can allow you to reach your financial goals.The ten steps to reaching financial freedom are: Step 1: Don't Get Into (More) DebtStep 2: Make a Frugal Budget. Step 3: Save an Emergency FundStep 4: Get Out of DebtStep 5: Increase IncomeStep 6: Protect What You've GotStep 7: Plan Your LifeStep 8: Invest WiselyStep 9: Get AdviceStep 10: Record and ReevaluateThis is the Everyman's guide to financial freedom. There is no need to get an engineering degree, take huge risks, or become a business tycoon. Rather, by working through these moderate and achievable steps, you will eventually reach your financial goals.Do you want to retire comfortably someday, perhaps while you are still young? Do you want to save for a deposit on a home? Would you like to one day get a more enjoyable job, or work part-time work?This book will show how everybody can reach their goals.I have never earned a high income. At age 40, I am semi-retired. I only take on employment when I choose to, for extra cash or to keep myself busy. My financial anxieties are far in the past.The Poor Man's Guide to Financial Freedom is the book I wish I had ten years ago when I began my journey to financial freedom. It is the distilled knowledge I have accumulated along the way, with all the myths, nonsense and distractions removed. No matter what your present financial situation or level of education, you will find this book highly readable and its steps helpful.Any young person who follows the steps in this book will reach financial freedom.
Download or read book Liberating People Planet and Religion written by Joerg Rieger and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-05-29 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is growing consensus that life on the planet is in peril if climate change continues at its current pace. At stake is not only the future of many species but of humanity itself. As an increasing number of ecological economists have emphasized, these problems will only be adequately addressed by re-examining economic systems from an ecological perspective, fundamentally calling into question assumptions of unlimited growth and the maximization of shareholder profit foundational to neoliberal capitalism. Religion and ecology scholars have also increasingly emphasized the ways climate change challenges assumed divides between nature and culture, religion and labor, economy and ecology, and calls for critical and constructive engagement with the religion, economy, and ecology nexus. Often, though, religious engagements with economy and ecology have placed emphasis on individual morality, action, and agency at the level of consumption patterns or have suggested mere modifications within existing economic paradigms. Contributors to this volume call into question the adequacy of this approach in light of the urgency of climate change which is always ever entwined with ongoing patterns of exploitation, oppression, and colonialism in current economic systems. Rather than tweaking a system of exploitation, for instance by emphasizing individual consumption or care for human and non-human victims, these authors articulate important opportunities for religious engagement, activism, resistance, and solidarity around issues of production and labor. Recalling that Marx linked agencies and labor of people as well as the other-than-human world, these authors aim to articulate a sense in which liberation of people and the planet are intertwined and can be accomplished only through collaboration for their common good. The basic intuition driving this volume is that while Christianity has by and large become the handmaiden of exploitative capitalism and empire, it might also reclaim latent theologies and religious practices that call into question the fundamental valuation of labor without recognition or rest, of extractive exploitation, and a “winner take all” praxis. In the process, Christianity might reclaim and reinvest in tenuous historical materializations of transformed ecological and economic relationships while economics might be re-informed by a valuation of the shared oikos as well as a just accounting of and renumeration for labor. Together they might serve the aim of the flourishing of all people and the planet.
Download or read book Liberating Life written by Charles Birch and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2007-01-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Birch is Professor Emeritus at the University of Sydney, Australia, and the author of 'Regaining Compassion for Humanity and Nature'. William Eakin is also the coeditor, with Paula M. Cooey and Jay B. McDaniel, of 'After Patriarchy: Feminist Transformations of the World Religions'. Jay B. McDaniel is Professor of Religion at Hendrix College and the author of 'Gandhi's Hope: Learning from Other Religions as a Path to Peace'.
Download or read book Liberating Grace written by Leonardo Boff and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2005-12-20 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Liberating Grace' is an important book on God's presence to human life that relates the new liberationist perspective to the best of the great theological tradition. The author unfolds the meaning of Christian grace in the light of the Latin American experience of dependency and exploitation. He shows that the turn to political involvement does not produce a detachment from the religious roots. --Gregory Baum McGill University Leonardo Boff's 'Liberating Grace' is a remarkable work. Against the background of traditional interpretations which may have fit the medieval or ancient world, Boff insists that grace must be understood within history and in terms of the kinds of experience we have today. Grace is no longer thought of as a substance but is discovered in the experience of relationships. God's liberating presence in the world permeates both personal and social relations, and this points to the political and economic arenas as keys to understanding God's free gift of love for humanity. Theology from Brazil has the aroma, flavor, and stimulation of something genuine, a grace which permeates all aspects of personal and social experience within the natural world. Boff works this view into various aspects of doctrine, including views of the Incarnation, Holy Spirit, and the Trinity. Chiefly, however, he makes 'grace' into a relevant doctrine for twentieth century living in the Third and other worlds. --Randolph Crump Miller Horace Bushnell Professor of Christian Nurture Yale University Divinity School
Download or read book African Women s Liberating Philosophies Theologies and Ethics written by Beatrice Okyere-Manu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Industrial Freedom written by Bernhard Ringrose Wise and published by London, Cassell. This book was released on 1892 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stress Free Money Overcome These Seven Obstacles to Find Financial Freedom written by Chad Willardson and published by Lioncrest Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day you’re bombarded by ideas that could derail your financial future. Bad advice, differing expert opinions, and sales pitches are everywhere. You’re faced with important money decisions that could either be very costly or really pay off in the long run. Whether you personally have $100,000 or $100 million, you feel the burden and stress of making the best moves for your future despite a lot of uncertainty. How do you decide what to do with your money? Where do you turn for financial advice? What if you’ve been misled? In Stress-Free Money, Chad shows you how to overcome the seven obstacles standing between you and financial freedom. He exposes the risks, biases, and major mistakes that keep so many people from reaching their goals. Financial security and peace of mind are within reach, but most of us don’t know where to start. The insights and stories in Stress-Free Money will give you confidence and guidance toward a life where you spend less time worrying about money and more time doing everything else.
Download or read book Liberating Black Theology written by Anthony B. Bradley and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2010-02-03 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the beliefs of Barack Obama's former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, assumed the spotlight during the 2008 presidential campaign, the influence of black liberation theology became hotly debated not just within theological circles but across cultural lines. How many of today's African-American congregations-and how many Americans in general-have been shaped by its view of blacks as perpetual victims of white oppression? In this interdisciplinary, biblical critique of the black experience in America, Anthony Bradley introduces audiences to black liberation theology and its spiritual and social impact. He starts with James Cone's proposition that the "victim" mind-set is inherent within black consciousness. Bradley then explores how such biblical misinterpretation has historically hindered black churches in addressing the diverse issues of their communities and prevented adherents from experiencing the freedoms of the gospel. Yet Liberating Black Theology does more than consider the ramifications of this belief system; it suggests an alternate approach to the black experience that can truly liberate all Christ-followers.
Download or read book Freedom written by Matt Bird and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You may be struggling to earn a living, be a professional in a middle-income job or a ‘successful’ multi-millionaire. Being free from anxiety about money has nothing to do with how much you earn or own. Whatever your financial situation Freedom is written for you. Freedom will walk you through 10 Steps to ensure you can live your life for Jesus free from anxiety about money. Each Step includes a series of practical actions that you can immediately implement to ensure you are moving closer to living a life of financial freedom.
Download or read book Liberating the Gospel written by David Smith and published by Augsburg Books. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberating the Gospel is prefaced by Tom Wright's claim that Christians have for too long "read scripture with nineteenth-century eyes and sixteenth-century questions," and that it is urgently necessary they learn to read "with first-century eyes and twenty-first-century questions." The central section of the book concentrates on reading the narratives of the Galilean ministry of Jesus within their first century context, then exploring Paul's mission in the setting of the urban and imperial world of Rome, before offering reflection on the Apocalypse in the changed world following the destruction of Jerusalem. Smith then concludes his treatise facing the "twenty-first-century questions," seeking to build a hermeneutical bridge to our globalized world. As a whole, this major book on Christian mission aims to contribute toward an understanding of how the dynamic message of Christ might be liberated to be heard as genuinely good news today, in the process potentially transforming Christianity, provided there is willingness to face opposition from a world resistant to the exposure of its injustices.
