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Pages in category "Liberation theologians" The following 99 pages are in this category, out of 99 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Antoine Adrien;
González was born in Havana, Cuba, on August 9, 1937. [2] He received Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees from the Instituto de Marianao in 1954. [2] Following three years of studies at the University of Havana, he attended the Evangelical Seminary of Theology [] in Matanzas, Cuba, from which he received a Bachelor of Sacred Theology degree in 1957. [2]
Gustavo Gutiérrez-Merino Díaz OP (8 June 1928 – 22 October 2024) was a Peruvian philosopher, Catholic theologian, and Dominican priest who was one of the founders of liberation theology in Latin America. [1] [2] His 1971 book A Theology of Liberation is considered pivotal to the formation of liberation theology.
Liberation theologies were first being discussed in the Latin American context, especially within Catholicism in the 1960s after the Second Vatican Council.There, it became the political praxis of theologians such as Frei Betto, Gustavo Gutiérrez, Leonardo Boff, and Jesuits Juan Luis Segundo and Jon Sobrino, who popularized the phrase "preferential option for the poor".
Dorothee Steffensky-Sölle (née Nipperdey; 1929–2003), known as Dorothee Sölle, was a German liberation theologian who coined the term "Christofascism". [ 16 ] [ 17 ] She was born in Cologne and died at a conference in Göppingen from cardiac arrest.
James Hal Cone (August 5, 1938 – April 28, 2018) was an American Methodist minister and theologian.He is best known for his advocacy of black theology and black liberation theology.
Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr [a] (June 21, 1892 – June 1, 1971) was an American Reformed theologian, ethicist, commentator on politics and public affairs, and professor at Union Theological Seminary for more than 30 years.
Black theology has to do with whether it is possible to be black and continue to be Christian; it is to ask on whose side is God; it is to be concerned about the humanisation of man, because those who ravage our humanity dehumanise themselves in the process; [it says] that the liberation of the black man is the other side of the liberation of ...