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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".
Jesuit theologian Enrique Nardoni has argued at length in his exhaustive study, Rise Up, O Judge, that the Bible as a whole and its cultural context support a preferential option for the poor. [21] Several representatives of Latin American liberation theology also use the option for the poor as a criterion for assessing environmental conflicts.
Most liberation theologians see Christian theological praxis mainly as lived and expressed in the life of community. "Any discourse of faith starts from, and takes its bearings from, the Christian life of Community". [2]
Latin American liberation theology (Spanish: Teología de la liberación, Portuguese: Teologia da libertação) is a synthesis of Christian theology and Marxian socio-economic analyses, that emphasizes "social concern for the poor and political liberation for oppressed peoples". [1]
While stating that "in itself, the expression 'theology of liberation' is a thoroughly valid term", [1] the prefect Cardinal Ratzinger rejected certain forms of Latin American liberation theology for focusing on institutionalized or systemic sin and for identifying Catholic Church hierarchy in South America as members of the same privileged ...
Liberation theology is a synthesis of Christian theology and socio-economic analyses that emphasizes "social concern for the poor and political liberation for oppressed peoples", [83] as well as "the oppressed and maimed and blind and lame", and bring the "good news to the poor". [84]
Such a reading of the parable makes it important in liberation theology, [39] where it provides a concrete anchoring for love [40] and indicates an "all embracing reach of solidarity." [41] In Indian Dalit theology, it is seen as providing a "life-giving message to the marginalized Dalits and a challenging message to the non-Dalits." [42]
Liberation theology – Christian theological approach emphasizing the liberation of the oppressed; New Monasticism – American Christian movement; Plowshares movement – Christian pacifist movement; Postmodern theology – Theological movement; Radical Reformation – Anabaptist movement concurrent with the Protestant Reformation