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The World Come of Age - An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology (Hardcover)
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The World Come of Age - An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology (Hardcover)
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On November 16, 2017, Pope Francis tweeted, "Poverty is not an
accident. It has causes that must be recognized and removed for the
good of so many of our brothers and sisters." With this statement
and others like it, the first Latin American pope was associated,
in the minds of many, with a stream of theology that swept the
Western hemisphere in the 1960s and 70s, the movement known as
liberation theology. Born of chaotic cultural crises in Latin
America and the United States, liberation theology was a
trans-American intellectual movement that sought to speak for those
parts of society marginalized by modern politics and religion by
virtue of race, class, or sex. Led by such revolutionaries as the
Peruvian Catholic priest Gustavo Gutierrez, the African American
theologian James Cone, or the feminists Mary Daly and Rosemary
Radford Ruether, the liberation theology movement sought to bridge
the gulf between the religious values of justice and equality and
political pragmatism. It combined theology with strands of radical
politics, social theory, and the history and experience of
subordinated groups to challenge the ideas that underwrite the
hierarchical structures of an unjust society. Praised by some as a
radical return to early Christian ethics and decried by others as a
Marxist takeover, liberation theology has a wide-raging,
cross-sectional history that has previously gone undocumented. In
The World Come of Age, Lilian Calles Barger offers for the first
time a systematic retelling of the history of liberation theology,
demonstrating how a group of theologians set the stage for a
torrent of new religious activism that challenged the religious and
political status quo.
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