Among social trends anchored in the ’60s, none have been as resourcefully mobilized by Christians as situation ethics (popularized in 1966 by Joseph Fletcher) and liberation theology (articulated at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A woman prays in front of a statue of the martyred Catholic archbishop of El Salvador, Oscar Romero, known for his embrace of ...

It would be tempting while reflecting on A Theology of Liberation, the 1971 book by the Peruvian priest Gustavo Gutiérrez, to compare it to a couple of musicals from that same year: the Broadway ...

The death of Gustavo Gutiérrez, called the “father of liberation theology,” at age 96 on October 22 has set off a reconsideration of the theological and pastoral movement spawned by the publication of ...

Journal of Africana Religions, Vol. 7, No. 2, Special Issue: James. H. Cone and Black Theology in Africana Perspective (2019), pp. 255-272 (18 pages) https://doi.org ...

SÃO PAULO — When Pope Benedict XVI comes to Brazil this month, he’ll be visiting the country where liberation theology has had its greatest impact. But he’s already well acquainted with liberation ...

SÃO PAULO, Brazil – In a harsh exchange of tweets with Brazilian theologian Leonardo Boff on Jan. 1, Brazil’s foreign minister Ernesto Araújo accused Liberation Theology of being responsible for the ...

Cardinal Baltazar Porras from the Pontifical Commission for Latin America presided at a Mass for immigrants at St. Ignatius Church, which closed the week-long Ibero-American Conference of Theology at ...

(RNS) — In churches all across the world, partway through the service, half the congregation is asked to leave the sanctuary. While the head pastor leads those in the pews in an in-depth exegetical ...

The Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez, a Peruvian priest known as the father of liberation theology, a movement that reverberated across Latin America and beyond with its emphasis on fighting poverty and ...

According to Glenn Beck, President Obama is a “liberation theologist.” What exactly is liberation theology? Strictly defined it’s a movement in Christian theology which interprets the teachings of ...