La Croix: How would you define liberation theology? Michael Löwy: Liberation Christianity is first and foremost a socio-religious movement that emerged in the Church in Latin America in the early ...

There, he met students, Catholic Action activists, and priests whose testimonies enriched his thinking, culminating in his seminal work, A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation ...

Moved by this suffering, Gutiérrez, a member of the Dominican order, published his most influential book, A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, Salvation, in 1971, arguing that genuine ...

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 ...

Gustavo Gutierrez, the Peruvian Catholic priest and professor credited with launching the influential and controversial Liberation Theology movement, has died at the age of 96. Orbis Books, which ...

LIMA, Peru — The Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez, the Peruvian theologian and father of the social justice-centered liberation theology that the Vatican once criticized for its Marxist undercurrents ...

It did not give a cause of death. Gutiérrez’s liberation theology put the poor as its priority and exerted great influence on doctrine and the history of the church in Latin America. His 1971 book “A ...

His groundbreaking work, A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation was published in 1971, an English translation appearing some two years later. It was this work that essentially ...

including an allegedly Marxist view of history, a selective reading of the Bible to focus on material redemption, and a class-driven concept of theology. The bishops were divided, but seemed ...

As autumn unfolds, bringing with it russet leaves and longer nights, many of us prepare for the spookiest night of the year – Halloween. Pumpkins are carved, decorations appear and children (and ...

John the Baptist of Peru announced the death of Gutiérrez, noting he was the author of the influential 1971 book “A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation.” “We ask for ...

Returning to the slums of Lima in the late 1950s, he discovered that the dominant theology of the Northern Hemisphere had little relevance in the context of Latin America. “The history of humani ...