Liberation Theology
'By the mingling of this water and wine may we come to share
in the divinity of Christ, who humbled himself to share in our humanity.'
Liberation theology is about life before death. It is a dirty theology that comes from the life experience of the poorest, most oppressed people on Earth. There is no place here for the detached highly respected academics in their universities and colleges eating three square meals a day. It is about people who die of starvation, whose voice is ignored. People who sleep on sacks in tin huts. The liberation theologian wishes to rebuild Eden in what, for many, is hell.
There are a number of distinct areas in liberation theology. These seek to deal with such things a poverty, the human sexual condition, feminism, ecology, world suffering, the place of animals and now youth ministry.
A number of links no longer work. I hope to update them as and when......
Theologies Liberation vs Submission A good account of the need to change
Youth Liberation and Ministry
ZGHAZAGH AZZJONI KATTOLIKA - MALTA
This is the Z.A.K. Zabbar Official Web Site. Welcome!
a philosophy- theology of youth ministry Not the best liberation article but a good starting point that seeks to offer sound advice.
Youth Ministry A book review with links. Australian youth ministry ideals discussed. Probably a good buy.
Christian Youth Resources, Australia As it says, youth resources!
Australia is producing some ground breaking work. Cultural Episcopi (Brent), Practical Ethics (Singer, who advocates human rights for the great apes) and now Youth Ministry.
Catholic Youth Youth centered orthodoxy
Liberation Theology of youth Uncomfortable and challenging! Real liberation theology READ IT
Praxis in practice� Liberation Theology-Liberation Pedagogy Another good article based in experience
IASYM - Journal of Youth and Theology
Gen X Papers Towards A Theology of YOUTH Ministry Programming
Theology of the human sexual condition
Gender and the Catholic Church
Animal Liberation
Some quotations
'I would rather submit to the worst of deaths, so far as pain goes, than have a single dog or cat tortured on the pretence of saving me a twinge or two' - Robert Browning
' It is black magic, which, in order to cure a patient, first transfers his complaint to an innocent victim. He who accepts health at such a cost shall but save it to lose it.' - Dr Anna Kingsford
Some words from the Prophets
What care I for the number of your sacrifices? says the LORD. I have had enough of whole-burnt rams and fat of fatlings; In the blood of calves, lambs and goats I find no pleasure. - Isaiah 1. 11
Merely slaughtering an ox is like slaying a man; sacrificing a lamb, like breaking a dog's neck - Isaiah 66. 3.
For it is love that I desire, not sacrifice, and knowledge of God rather than holocausts. - Hosea 6. 6.
Oxford The Home of Controversy about Animals
Book reviews
Amazon.com buying info Animal Gospel
Amazon.com buying info Animal Theology
Amazon.com buying info Ethics into Action Henry Spira and the Animal Rights Movement
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