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Home›Traditions›Liberation Theology

Liberation Theology Illustrations

God's preferential option for the poor and oppressed, with salvation as liberation from all forms of oppression.

Key question: “How does the Gospel liberate the oppressed and challenge unjust structures in society?”

23,197 sermon illustrations through the Liberation Theology lens

Poetry

The Canterbury Tales. The Man of Law's Tale.

THE PROLOGUE.

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Geoffrey Chaucer

7777 words

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Poetry

Epistle to Mr Jervas, With Mr Dryden's Translation of Fresnoy's 'art of Painting.'

This verse be thine, my friend, nor thou refuse This from no venal or ungrateful Muse.

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Alexander Pope

507 words

Poetry

The Canterbury Tales. The Squire's Tale.

THE PROLOGUE. Godde's mercy!" said our Hoste tho, "Now such a wife I pray God keep me fro'.

The Canterbury Tales. The Knight's Tale.

WHILOM, as olde stories tellen us, There was a duke that highte Theseus. Of Athens he was lord and governor, And in his time such a conqueror That greater was there none under the sun. Full many a riche country had he won.

Prosopopoia: or Mother Hubbard's Tale

By that he ended had his ghostly sermon, The fox was well induc'd to be a parson, And of the priest eftsoons gan to inquire, How to a benefice he might aspire.

The Canterbury Tales. The Franklin's Tale.

THE PROLOGUE.

A Grammarian's Funeral : Shortly After the Revival of Learning in Europe

Let us begin and carry up this corpse, Singing together. Leave we the common crofts, the vulgar thorpes, Each in its tether Sleeping safe on the bosom of the plain, Cared-for till cock-crow: Look out if yonder be not day again Rimming the rock-row!

The Death of Calmar and Orla. an Imitation of MacPherson's "Ossian"

Dear are the days of youth! Age dwells on their remembrance through the mist of time. In the twilight he recalls the sunny hours of morn. He lifts his spear with trembling hand. "Not thus feebly did I raise the...

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

1467 words

Poetry

The Canterbury Tales. The Clerk's Tale.

THE PROLOGUE. "SIR Clerk of Oxenford," our Hoste said, "Ye ride as still and coy, as doth a maid That were new spoused, sitting at the board: This day I heard not of your tongue a word.

The Canterbury Tales. The Doctor's Tale.

THE PROLOGUE. ["YEA, let that passe," quoth our Host, "as now. Sir Doctor of Physik, I praye you, Tell us a tale of some honest mattere." "It shall be done, if that ye will it hear," Said this Doctor; and his tale gan anon.

The Canterbury Tales. The Canon's Yeoman's Tale.

THE PROLOGUE. WHEN ended was the life of Saint Cecile, Ere we had ridden fully five mile, At Boughton-under-Blee us gan o'ertake A man, that clothed was in clothes black, And underneath he wore a white surplice.

The Canterbury Tales. The Second Nun's Tale

The minister and norice unto vices, Which that men call in English idleness, The porter at the gate is of delices; T'eschew, and by her contrar' her oppress, -- That is to say, by lawful business, -- Well oughte we...

The Canterbury Tales. The Sompnour's Tale.

THE PROLOGUE.

The Canterbury Tales. The Prioress's Tale.

THE PROLOGUE. "WELL said, by corpus Domini," quoth our Host; "Now longe may'st thou saile by the coast, Thou gentle Master, gentle Marinere. God give the monk a thousand last quad year! fellows, beware of such a jape.

The Heretic's Tragedy: A Middle-Age Interlude

The Lord, we look to once for all, Is the Lord we should look at, all at once: He knows not to vary, saith Saint Paul, Nor the shadow of turning, for the nonce. See him no other than as he is!

The Canterbury Tales. The Friar's Tale.

THE PROLOGUE.

The Canterbury Tales. The Nun's Priest's Tale.

THE PROLOGUE. "Ho!" quoth the Knight, "good sir, no more of this; That ye have said is right enough, y-wis, And muche more; for little heaviness Is right enough to muche folk, I guess.

Brother of All, with Generous Hand.

1 BROTHER of all, with generous hand, Of thee, pondering on thee, as o’er thy tomb, I and my Soul, A thought to launch in memory of thee, A burial verse for thee. What may we chant, O thou within this tomb?

The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church (Rome, 15--)

Vanity, saith the preacher, vanity! Draw round my bed: is Anselm keeping back? Nephews--sons mine ... ah God, I know not! Well, She, men would have to be your mother once, Old Gandolf envied me, so fair she was!

The Canterbury Tales. The Wife of Bath's Tale.

THE PROLOGUE.

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Geoffrey Chaucer

8830 words

Historical

On This Day: On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the first known recording of a

4/9 (1860): On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the first known recording of an audible human voice.

Universal

Short20 words

Poetry

Four Trees -- upon a solitary Acre --

Four Trees -- upon a solitary Acre -- Without Design Or Order, or Apparent Action -- Maintain -- The Sun -- upon a Morning meets...

Their Height in Heaven comforts not --

Their Height in Heaven comforts not -- Their Glory -- nought to me -- 'Twas best imperfect -- as it was -- I'm finite --...

Go not too near a House of Rose --

Go not too near a House of Rose -- The depredation of a Breeze -- Or inundation of a Dew Alarms its walls away --...

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Emily Dickinson

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