C1T4F Liberation Theology. Liberation Theology. F Liberation Theology. F Part B To what extent has liberation theology offered a cultural challenge. F Part B Are the political and ethical foundations of liberation. A) Explain the basis of South American liberation theology with reference to Gustavo Gutierrez. Romero (1989) Trailer - John Duigan, Raul Julia. The Catholic turn to socialism is something to celebrate. Good and holy popes have frequently condemned the capitalist order.
No wonder young Catholics are following suit Why are so many younger Catholics drawn to socialism? Writing on this site, CC Pecknold recently suggested that “an increasingly vocal band of very online Catholics” is trying and failing “to reconcile socialist principles with (specifically Thomist) natural law principles”. Liberation Theology. Extract Pope Francis and Gustavo Guiterrez. Pope Frances actively sought Gustavo Gutierrez’s advice in writing his encyclical on the environment Laudato Si (2015).
Contrast the words of this section on global linequality with the rebuke of Cardinal Ratzinger’s response in 1984 Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith (1984) Instruction on Certain Aspects of the ‘Theology of Liberation’ 48. Summary - Alistair Kee Beyond Liberation Theology. Alistair Kee, “Beyond Liberation Theology” – a summary Chapter 11: Marx and the Failure of Liberation Theology Marx’s Three Criticisms of religion: 1) Religion is an opiate for the poor (it numbs their senses so they don’t feel the injustice) 2) Religion is an inversion of reality (it places the hope in another world).
Marx calls this the ontological critique where ‘ontological’ refers to the general considerations about existence, reality, and being. Extract - Liberation Theology and a new view of man. Source Joseph Laishley As Gutierrez puts it:
Fr. Miguel D'Escoto put his priestly life at the service of the poor. Suggested Reading: Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith 1984. Source The Gospel of Jesus Christ is a message of freedom and a force for liberation.
In recent years, this essential truth has become the object of reflection for theologians, with a new kind of attention which is itself full of promise. Liberation is first and foremost liberation from the radical slavery of sin. Its end and its goal is the freedom of the children of God, which is the gift of grace. As a logical consequence, it calls for freedom from many different kinds of slavery in the cultural, economic, social, and political spheres, all of which derive ultimately from sin, and so often prevent people from living in a manner befitting their dignity.
To discern clearly what is fundamental to this issue and what is a by-product of it, is an indispensable condition for any theological reflection on liberation. Faced with the urgency of certain problems, some are tempted to emphasize, unilaterally, the liberation from servitude of an earthly and temporal kind. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Key Quotes. “When I see a church with a machine gun, I cannot see the crucified Christ in that church.
We can never use hate as a system of change. Extract Guiterrez - Liberation. Source: Catholic Reporter n his introduction, Groody reviews Gutierrez’s three bottom-line principles about life and death at the bottom.
First, material poverty is never good but an evil to be opposed. “It is not simply an occasion for charity but a degrading force that denigrates human dignity and ought to be opposed and rejected.” Second, poverty is not a result of fate or laziness, but is due to structural injustices that privilege some while marginalizing others. “Poverty is not inevitable; collectively the poor can organize and facilitate social change.” Third, poverty is a complex reality and is not limited to its economic dimension. “An early and unjust death”. Article - A Short History of Liberation Theology Leonardo & Clodovis Boff. Source By Leonardo and Clodovis Boff.
From the book, Introducing Liberation Theology, published by Orbis Books, 1987. Reprinted by permission. Extract Jon Sobrino and A Preferential Option for the Poor. Source Thang Nhat Nguyen – A Preferential option for the poor in Jon Sobrino’s Theology Jon Sobrino (1938-) is one of several liberation theologians arguing for a preferential option for the poor.
He lives in El Salvador. Fr Ernesto Cardenal, revolutionary Nicaraguan priest, dies at 95. Ernesto Cardenal, the radical Latin American priest, poet and revolutionary has died.
He was famous for defying the Catholic Church in the 1980s by serving in the revolutionary Sandinista government of Nicaragua. His suspension from the priesthood by St John Paul II lasted over three decades. Ernesto Cardenal obituary. In 1983 ministers of the revolutionary Sandinista government lined up on the tarmac to welcome Pope John Paul II on his first visit to Nicaragua. Moments later, TV cameras showed the pontiff wagging a finger at the kneeling Ernesto Cardenal, priest and minister of culture, admonishing him for mixing religion and politics. But for Cardenal, who has died aged 95, there was no distinction between the two. His beliefs as a Roman Catholic growing up in Central America in the 1940s and 50s led him to seek social justice in a country that had for many years suffered under the dynastic rule of the Somoza family.