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Reverend Walter Stanley Senior (10 May 1876 – 23 February 1938) was an English scholar, poet and member of the Church Missionary Society. [1] Popularly known as the "Bard of Lanka ", [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] his works are still widely read in the island nation.
In 1969, he attended the First National Chicano Youth Liberation Conference, hosted by Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales's Crusade for Justice, and read a poem to the attendees. The poem so moved the youth present that they adopted it as the preamble of the Plan Espiritual de Aztlán , the political manifesto of the Chicano Movement .
Berlin initially defined negative liberty as "freedom from", that is, the absence of constraints on the agent imposed by other people. He defined positive liberty both as "freedom to", that is, the ability (not just the opportunity) to pursue and achieve willed goals; and also as autonomy or self-rule, as opposed to dependence on others.
[154] According to historian Roy Porter, the liberation of the human mind from a dogmatic state of ignorance, is the epitome of what the Age of Enlightenment was trying to capture. [ 155 ] Bertrand Russell saw the Enlightenment as a phase in a progressive development which began in antiquity and that reason and challenges to the established ...
[citation needed] Some hold it to be an ideology, [2] others argue that ideology is the principal obstacle to human liberation. [3] Critical theory finds applications in various fields of study, including psychoanalysis , film theory , literary theory , cultural studies , history , communication theory , philosophy , and feminist theory .
Some poems mix religious and political subjects such as poems themed around the Turkish War of Independence or the social unrest of the 1960–70s. One example of this is the poem "The Epos of the Liberation" about the War of Independence written by Adil Ali Atalay: It is grievous to be a prisoner in my own country,
[a] In this way, postliberal theologies have largely replicated earlier 20th-century debates surrounding the notion of the "analogy of being" (cf. Hans Urs von Balthasar, The Theology of Karl Barth). Unlike the pluralistic liberal trend preceding it, postliberal theology also tends to stress the dissimilarities between religious worldviews, [ 8 ...
"Come, O thou Traveller unknown" was first published in Charles Wesley's 1742 collection Hymns and Sacred Poems, under the title "Wrestling Jacob". It was later included in his brother John's foundational Methodist hymnal Collection of Hymns for the use of the People called Methodist, published in 1780.