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Liberation Theology
Liberation theology, a movement linked with social change, arose at a time of political repression in Latin America and coincided with the ferment in the Roman Catholic Church after the Second Vatican Council and the encyclicals associated with it. In its distinctive method, it has many affinities with feminist theology, black theology, and various kinds of contextual theology.
The wider ecclesial context has also been important. The decisions taken by the Latin American bishops at their epoch-making meeting at Medellín, reaffirmed at Puebla with the explicit commitment to take a “preferential option for the poor,” have offered a foundation for those Christians committed to the betterment of the poor to see their task as an integral part of the church’s mission of evangelization. Liberation theology has ...
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