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Created:June 27, 2002
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Liberation Theology as a Distinct Theology

Copyright: Patricia Acone, Jeanne Curran, Susan R. Takata and Individaul Authors, June 2002.
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Liberation theology is primarily an "interpretation of Christian Faith out of the suffering, struggle, and hope of the poor. It's a critique of society and the ideologies sustaining it. A critique of the activity of the Church and of Christians from the angle of the poor." Phillip Berryman, Liberation Theology: The Essential Facts about the Revolutionary Movement in Latin America and Beyond. Pantheon Books. At p. 5-6.

Officials of the Catholics Church have argued that liberation theology is not a theology at all. Berryman and others contend that liberation theology IS a theology. "It is a systematic, disciplined reflection on Christian Faith and its implications." (op cit., p. 4)

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