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Topic: Phillip Berryman


In the News (Sat 28 Nov 09)

  
  Berryman Family
Alvin Berryman (1887 Brookeland - circa 2/15/1983 Brookeland) married Effie McDaniel
Helen Obedia Berryman (- circa 2/21/1980) married Asa Bryant Burr (- circa 12/17/1964 Freeport)
Kennesson Allier Berryman (1912 - circa 3/2004) married Edilia (- circa 2/2004) from Venezuela
www.paulridenour.com /berryman.htm   (1581 words)

  
  Liberation theology and the great revolutionary fantasy, by Phillip Berryman
Berryman cites the comments of leading liberation theologian, Juan Luis Segundo, who points out that "the initial formulations were the work of theologians involved not so much with the poor as with university groups and intellectuals who were becoming aware of the structural crisis of Latin America".
Berryman does make it clear that liberation theology is "revolutionary", rather than "reformist", in what it advocates for Latin America (the subtitle of the book describes liberation theology as "the revolutionary movement").
Berryman's account also reveals the utopianism implicit in the ideas and attitudes of the liberation theologians, a utopianism which goes hand-in-hand with a kind of metaphysical obsession with the evils of capitalism.
www.ad2000.com.au /articles/1988/decjan1988p12_571.html   (1760 words)

  
 H-Net Review: Mark Gring on Stubborn Hope: Religion, Politics and Revolution in Central America
Berryman contends that the main concern of Roman Catholic clergy and lay workers was to "accompany" the poor and disenfranchised.
Berryman's reaction to those who view humanity's basic problems as spiritual, rather than as a lack of social justice, is to accuse them of "not really understand[ing] the questions" (p.208) and of having a theology which consisted of "a kind of mental astrodome protecting its members from actually confronting such questions" (p.
Berryman's text is consistent with most Orbis publications: it does not adhere to academic guidelines for evidence (such as the use of multiple sources for supporting evidence, validation of sources, direct endnoting or footnoting, and responding to counter-evidence or -positions), it is predisposed to advocacy and self-justification.
www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=9045851379797   (1749 words)

  
 Phillip Berryman: Liberation Theology
Philip Berryman addresses these timely and challenging issues in this comprehensive.
The book also examines how liberation theology functions at the village or barrio level, the political impact of liberation theology, and the major objections to it posed by critics, concluding with a tentative assessment of the future of liberation theology.
Phillip Berryman was a pastoral worker in a barrio in Panama during 1965-73.
www.temple.edu /tempress/titles/517_reg.html   (364 words)

  
 The John Yu Liberation Theology Document Collection
With power the apostles bore witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great respect was paid to them all; nor was there anyone needy among them, for all who owned property or houses sold them and lay them at the feet of the apostles to be distributed to everyone according to his need.
It was the Coca-Cola strike of March 1976 that proved to be the opening wedge of what became a broad opposition movement.
In both their liberal (Jimmy Carter) and their conservative (Ronald Reagan) forms, United States policies have ignored the real roots of the struggle and have supported the brutal tactics of the military and oligarchy used against the unarmed population.
www.liberationtheology.org /berryman.html   (2544 words)

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