Theology, ideology, and liberation : towards a liberative theology

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Theology, ideology, and liberation : towards a liberative theology

Title remainder

towards a liberative theology

Statement of responsibility

Peter Scott

Title variation

Theology, Ideology & Liberation

Creator

• Scott, Peter, 1961-

Subject

• Christian sociology
• Ideology -- Religious aspects | Christianity
• Idolatry
• Liberation theology

Language

eng

Summary

How is theology liberating? In the context of a post-Gorbachev world, where many demand freedom which the Western powers seem ill-equipped to deliver, is it even possible to envisage a liberative theology? Taking as his starting point the Marxist complaint that Christianity is ideological, Peter Scott argues that it is not enough for Christian theology to talk about liberation: it must be liberative. Stressing with feminist and liberation theologies the embodied, contextual nature of theology, the constructive proposal made here locates God's liberating abundance toward society in an interpretation of resurrection as social. Only in this way, in the author's view, can a trinitarian Christian account of liberation be adequately grounded. The book will be of interest to all those who wish to know if theology may speak truthfully about the transformation of society: it offers the shape of a liberative theology pointing towards social freedom.--

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• Cambridge studies in ideology and religion, 6

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Provided by publisher

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UkCbUP

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

• Cambridge studies in ideology and religion
• Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Series volume

6