Gustavo Gutierrez 'Liberation Theology'

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“Liberation theology” was classified by the Catholic priest Gustavo Gutierrez in Montreal Candia 1968. Embedded in an extensive struggle of social issues in Latin America, liberation theology is a Christian school of religious studies centering on the fundamental awareness that poverty and capitalist injustice is a sin and that there should be a liberation from the oppression of global capitalism that reduces the mode of life to the majority of people. Following Gutierrez’s influential A Theology of Liberation (1971), a variety of writings began to emerge, and an assemblage of contributory revolutionary theologians arose, increasing in the ensuing years to other fractions of the world. Engaging with Marxism as a method of social examination

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