Whatever happened to liberation theology?(Latin America)

From: The Christian Century | Date: October 20, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

NOT LONG AGO, a retired pastor and theologian who had lived and taught in Buenos Aires in the early 1970s came back to visit. He had some pressing questions: What does liberation theology mean to you people today? What authors do you read in your seminary classes? What aspects of liberation theology still seem relevant to you?

The questions were pointed and timely. Several of us entered into a heated discussion with our visitor, out of which a relative consensus emerged: We do read the classic texts of Latin American theology (Gutierrez, Boff, Segundo, Sobrino, Miguez Bonino ...

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