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Liberation Theology
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[German Version] I. Church History – II. Systematics
I. Church History …
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Religion Past and Present
Theory and Praxis
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[German Version]
I. Natural Sciences The distinction between theory as a consistent linguistic or symbolic system of ordered statements about a par-¶ ticular subject area or phenomenal domain and practice (praxis) as technical action to produce quantifiable phenomena in an experiment, or at least observation against the background of a theory, is fundamental to the modern natural sciences, although the precise definition of …
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Religion Past and Present
Liberation
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[German Version] I. Dogmatics – II. Ethics
I. Dogmatics While the term
liberty (Lat.
libertas) denotes the state or property of being free,
liberation describes the process through which liberty or freedom is achieved. Liberation is the conscious praxis of freedom to achieve freedom from oppression (Freire). In the New Testament, ἐλευθερόω/
eleutheróō denotes the process of being set free through the work of Christ from the dominion of sin (V), death (VI), and decay (Rom 6:18, 22; 8:2, 21; John 8:32, 36). Enslavement and captivity are the objective circumstances from which we seek liberation (Gal 5:1). For Paul liberation is closely associated with sanctification, although the soteriological meaning is implied (Rom 6:22). This continuum of sanctification and redemption (V) is at the…
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