Toward the ‘Rights of the Poor’ Human Rights in Liberation Theology

In this article, the author traces the response of liberation theologians to human rights initiatives through three distinct stages over the past thirty years: from an initial avoidance of the concept, to an early critique, and then to a nuanced theological appropriation. He contends that liberation...

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Main Author: Engler, Mark (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2000
In: Journal of religious ethics
Year: 2000, Volume: 28, Issue: 3, Pages: 339-365
Further subjects:B rights of the poor
B Liberation Theology
B historicization
B Human Rights
B rights discourse
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