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'''Liberation theology''' is the belief that [[God]] sides with oppressed people to help them against their oppressors.<ref>[http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2008/04/what_is_liberation_theology.html What is Liberation Theology?], Tony Campolo.</ref> It arose in the 1960s in [[Latin America]] as a vehicle for [[fellow traveller]] priests with leftist political views to attack [[conservative]] governments friendly to the [[United States]]. While ostensibly based on [[scripture]], the ideology tended to be extremely left-leaning and influenced by [[Marxist]] [[materialism]] and was thus not viewed favorably by the [[Vatican]].  Some scholars have argued that this theology grew out of the crisis theology, better known as the [[Religious Left|neo-orthodoxy]] movement, since the famed theologian Karl Barth had in the 1910's pastored coal miners and the equally famed theologian [[Reinhold Niebuhr]] had in the 1920's pastored Detroit auto workers.

'''Liberation theology''' is the belief that [[God]] sides with oppressed people to help them against their oppressors.<ref>[http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2008/04/what_is_liberation_theology.html What is Liberation Theology?], Tony Campolo.</ref> It arose in the 1960s in [[Latin America]] as a vehicle for [[fellow traveller]] priests with leftist political views to attack [[conservative]] governments friendly to the [[United States]]. While ostensibly based on [[scripture]], the ideology tended to be extremely left-leaning and influenced by [[Marxist]] [[materialism]] and was thus not viewed favorably by the [[Vatican]].  Some scholars have argued that this theology grew out of crisis theology, better known as the [[Religious Left|neo-orthodoxy]] movement, since the famed theologian Karl Barth had in the 1910's pastored coal miners and the equally famed theologian [[Reinhold Niebuhr]] had in the 1920's pastored Detroit auto workers.

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