Liberation theology
Subtitle: an introductory guide
By: Robert McAfee Brown.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Westminster/John Knox Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Louisville, KY
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9780664254247
Copyright date: 1993
Subjects: Liberation theology
Description: Liberation theology lends transforming power to both the study of the Bible and the Christian duty to work for justice for all God's people. Robert McAfee Brown's vivid prose brings to life heartwarming, terrifying, and humorous stories that show the strength and significance of this crucial development in religious faith. - Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-143).
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Situating ourselves; title: A new way of understanding people (the human side of God's story); title: A new way of seeing the world (1492 and all that); title: A new way of encountering God ("to know God is to do justice"); title: A new way of being the Church (the genie that won't go back in the bottle); title: Can there be a new way for us? (1) (liberation theology and North America); title: Can there be a new way for us? (2) (our own liberation theology); title: Study questions; title: Notes and resources