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Jason Walter

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  • At the mere mention of network window systems, certain propeller heads who confuse technology with economics will start foaming at the mouth about their client/server models and how in the future palmtops will just run the X server and let the other half of the program run on some Cray down the street.
    The UNIX-HATERS Handbook
  • I Post, Therefore I Am
    The UNIX-HATERS Handbook
  • In reordering the theological spectrum, liberation theology thus says: (1) biblical praxis-empowerment comes first and (2) social analysis follows. Thus Christian theology emerges. This may be a new way of doing theology.
    Birth Pangs: Liberation Theology in North America
  • This is the issue: liberation theology seeks to understand why the actual decisions about the course of history are made on grounds other than Christ-centered faith and tries to connect the faith with the actual course of history.
    Birth Pangs: Liberation Theology in North America
  • Without Marx’s theory, we will continue to take God’s name in vain in economics and politics.
    Birth Pangs: Liberation Theology in North America
  • Liberation theology is also an act of prayer, of worship and of contemplation, but in the midst of politics and economics where all of us live. It seeks to evoke a dynamic evangelism and mission that embody God’s justice. Its motto is struggle and contemplation.
    Birth Pangs: Liberation Theology in North America
  • For those unfamiliar with the word "praxis," it should be pointed out that it does not mean sheer activism. Praxis seeks to get at the interaction of deed and thought, the holistic embodiment of meaning.
    Birth Pangs: Liberation Theology in North America
  • In praxis empowered by the New Testament, it is not we who create theology, but the God of the poor.
    Birth Pangs: Liberation Theology in North America
  • What we are arguing is that the poor are part of the human condition -- and if in theology we overlook them, we will not encounter God. We can no longer theologize apart from the global social context. Liberation theology is created for us by the world’s poor and the God of the poor.
    Birth Pangs: Liberation Theology in North America