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Karl Marx And Liberation Theology: Dialectical Materialism And Christian Spirituality In, Against, And Beyond Contemporary Capitalism, Peter Mclaren, Petar Jandrić
Karl Marx And Liberation Theology: Dialectical Materialism And Christian Spirituality In, Against, And Beyond Contemporary Capitalism, Peter Mclaren, Petar Jandrić
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This paper explores convergences and discrepancies between liberation theology and the works of Karl Marx through the dialogue between one of the key contemporary proponents of liberation theology, Peter McLaren, and the agnostic scholar in critical pedagogy, Petar Jandrić. The paper briefly outlines liberation theology and its main convergences with the works of Karl Marx. Exposing striking similarities between the two traditions in denouncing the false God of money, it explores differences in their views towards individualism and collectivism. It rejects shallow rhetorical homologies between Marx and the Bible often found in liberation theology, and suggests a change of focus …
Can God Know What Time It Is? A Working Paper, Caleb Brown
Can God Know What Time It Is? A Working Paper, Caleb Brown
Quaerens Deum: The Liberty Undergraduate Journal for Philosophy of Religion
Many thinkers hold the following five propositions are inconsistent:
- The dynamic theory of time (McTaggart’s “A-theory”) is correct
- God is atemporal
- God knows tensed facts
- Free human actions are possible
- God interacts responsively with humans
This working paper uses the discussion in Four Views: God and Time as a starting-point and moves towards explaining how these propositions are consistent.