The Cambridge Companion to Liberation Theology
By: edited by Christopher Rowland
Edition: 2nd edition
Series: Cambridge companions to religion
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 31, 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780521868839
Copyright date: 2007
Subjects: Christian theology; Religion; Religion - Church History; Christianity - General; Religion / Christianity
First sentence: The urgency and the richness of the commitment that many Christians in the Latin America and the Caribbean began to feel in the 1960s as part of the struggle for justice and solidarity with the poor raised new questions, as well as pointing to fertile new pathways in the discourse about faith.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The theology of liberation / Christopher Rowland; title: Task and content of liberation theology / G. Gutierrez ; translated by Judith Condor; title: 'Action is the life of all' : the praxis-based epistemology of liberation theology / Zoë Bennett; title: Liberation theology in Asia / Bastiaan Wielenga; title: Black theology / Edward Antonio; title: Feminist theology : a critical theology of liberation / Mary Grey; title: Demythologising liberation theology : reflections on power, poverty and sexuality / Marcella Maria Althaus-Reid; title: Origins and character of the base ecclesial community : a Brazilian perspective / Andrew Dawson; title: Bible and the poor : a new way of doing theology / Gerald West; title: Liberation and reconstruction : the unfinished agenda / Charles Villa-Vicencio; title: Libration theology and the Roman Catholic Church / Peter Hebblethwaite; title: Marxism, liberation theology and the way of negation / Denys Turner; title: The economics of liberation theology / Valpy Fitzgerald; title: Political theology, tradition and modernity / Oliver O'Donovan; title: Globalising liberation theology : the American context, and coda / Ivan Petrella; title: Epilogue: The future of liberation theology / Christopher Rowland