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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 crisis theology, better known as the [[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.  A December 10, 1932 [[New York Times]] book review "Doctrince of Christ and Marx's Linked" of Neihbor's ''Moral Man and Immoral Society''<ref> [http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10A17FF355513738DDDA90994DA415B828FF1D3 ''New York Times''], December 10, 1932, Saturday, Section: BOOKS ART RELIGIOUS SERVICES, Page 13, 512 words </ref> shows that Neibuhr linked Christianity and Marxism decades before Liberation theology's emergence in the 1960's 
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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]].  
  
 
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Revision as of 13:02, December 13, 2008

Liberation theology is the belief that God sides with oppressed people to help them against their oppressors.[1] 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.

Also See

References

  1. ↑ What is Liberation Theology?, Tony Campolo.
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