- Written by Luiz Sérgio Solimeo
“Not only is participating in class struggle not opposed to universal love, but today, this commitment is the necessary and inescapable means of making this love concrete, as this participation is what leads to a classless society, a society without owners and dispossessed, without oppressors and oppressed.”This statement is not found in the writings of “Che” Guevara or any manifesto of the Colombian FARC guerrillas or other group of revolutionary subversives.
It is found in the book A Theology of Liberation, by Fr. Gustavo Gutiérrez, a Peruvian priest, who has been called the “father” of liberation theology.[1]
Liberation Theology, Church Theology?
But why is “liberation theology” back in the news?
Because in its September 4, 2013 edition, Vatican Insider, the religious blog of the Italian newspaper La Stampa, from Turin, deals with two articles on the publication of the book Dalla parte dei…
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