A Peruvian priest who founded liberation theology, a movement advocating an active role for the Roman Catholic Church in fighting poverty and injustice but reviled by some as Marxist, has died.

Among social trends anchored in the ’60s, none have been as resourcefully mobilized by Christians as situation ethics (popularized in 1966 by Joseph Fletcher) and liberation theology (articulated at ...

Comblin became a leading exponent of liberation theology, which advocates activism on behalf of the poor. The movement swept Latin America in the 1960s following the Second Vatican Council.

The Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez, a Peruvian priest known as the father of liberation theology, a movement that reverberated across ...

In this pioneering book, Stephen Pattison draws on the methods and insights of Latin American liberation theology in order to challenge such narrow individualism, which is blind to matters of ...

Four decades ago a book written by a Peruvian priest sent shockwaves inside the Latinamerican Catholic Church having set the foundations for what was known as the Liberation Theology. Accused of ...

I saw many posts online about Dominican Fr. Gustavo Gutiérrez, proudly Peruvian, popularly known as one of the fathers of liberation theology, who died on Oct. 22 at the age of 96. I thought, why ...

Liberation Theology close Liberation TheologyChristian movement set up to solve social issues such as poverty and injustice. is a movement within the Catholic Church. It began in Latin America in ...

The College of Human Sciences at Unisa has launched its inaugural annual Abantu Dialogues Colloquium at the Senate Hall, focusing on the theme Balele Nje Basathetha: Revisiting our Heroines and ...