When the church hears the cry of the oppressed it cannot but denounce the social structures that give rise to and perpetuate the misery from which the cry arises.
02224 – Churches Denouncing Social Structures
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02178 – Whose Side are We On?
It cannot be denied that too often the weight of the Christian movement has been on the side of the strong and the powerful and against the weak and oppressed--this, despite the gospel. from Jesus and the Disinherited
01958 – Spectators, Not Victims?
It is hard not to conclude that the main reason [Western] theologians have said little that can be used in the struggle of the oppressed is due to the fact that they have been only spectators and not victims of suffering.
01957 – Theology of the Gospel?
There can be no Christian theology which is not identified unreservedly with those who are humiliated and abused. In fact, theology ceases to be a theology of the gospel when it fails to arise out of the community of the oppressed.
01574 – Seeing From the Perspective of the Suffering
It remains an experience of incomparable value that we have for once learnt to see the great events of world history from below, from the perspective of the outcasts, the suspects, the maltreated, the powerless, the oppressed and reviled, in short, from the...
00501 – A Life of Unhurried Serenity
And we are unhappy, uneasy, strained, oppressed, and fearful we shall be shallow. For over the margins of life comes a whisper, a faint call, a premonition of richer living which we know we are passing by. Strained by the very mad pace of our daily outer burdens, we...