How authentically Christian is liberation theology?

The author believes that the preferential option for the poor constricts its attention to economic disadvantage, and ascribes virtually all impoverishment to purposeful oppression. The poor are, simply in virtue of their deprivation, said to be so morally exalted that the gospel has for them no call...

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Main Author: Burtchaell, James Tunstead 1934-2015 (Author)
Format: Print Article
Language:English
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Published: 1988
In: The review of politics
Year: 1988, Volume: 50, Issue: 2, Pages: 264-281
Further subjects:B Social criticism
B Poverty
B Liberation theology
B Latin America Christianity Poverty Liberation theology Catholic church Social criticism
B Christianity
B Catholic school
B Latin America
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Summary:The author believes that the preferential option for the poor constricts its attention to economic disadvantage, and ascribes virtually all impoverishment to purposeful oppression. The poor are, simply in virtue of their deprivation, said to be so morally exalted that the gospel has for them no call to conversion. Yet their salvation turns out to be predominantly, if not exclusively, economic and political
Physical Description:Lit. S. 280-281
ISSN:0034-6705
Contains:In: The review of politics