Introduction to Latin American Liberation Theology (RET6043A) SS [25/26]
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Bibliography Soubor DOCX
Here is a bibliography, containing books available in the faculty library.
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This week we will have an introductory class, looking at the historical context of Latin America.
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This article, which was published only in Czech translation, gives an overview of the history of Latin American liberation theology within the historical context of Latin America.
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Power Point Soubor PPTX
This is a powerpoint with a brief introduction to the history of Latin America.
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The reading for this week is Lillian Calles Barger, The World Come of Age. An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology (New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018), 24–30, giving an overview of the development of liberation theology in Latin America.
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This text sets the intellectual context for the development of Latin American liberation theology.
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There will be no class this week. As a special present, you can either catch up with reading for following weeks, or read the chapter on Pope Francis and liberation theology from a book I wrote.
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Tim Noble, Liberation Against Entitlement. Conflicting Theologies of Grace and Clashing Populisms (Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2022), 146–74.
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The text for this week is
Leonardo and Clodovis Boff, Introduction to Liberation Theology (Tunbridge Wells: Burns and Oates, 1987), 1–42.
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This is the text for this week.
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Here are pages 43-65, if you want to read them.
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In case you want to read the rest of the book, here it is.
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This week's text is from what is often considered the founding book of liberation theology, Gustavo Gutierrez: A Theology of Liberation. Revised Edition. (London: SCM, 1988), 3-12, 29–33 and endnotes.
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Here are the notes for the text for this week. Unfortunately, the notes are at the end, hence the two files, one with the text and the other with endnotes.
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The text for this week is a continuation of Gutiérrez, A Theology of Liberation.
Gustavo Gutierrez: A Theology of Liberation. Revised Edition. (London: SCM, 1988), 83–105, and endnotes
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Text for next week, a continuation of Gutiérrez
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No class this week. Happy Holy Week.
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Happy Easter. There will be no class this week.
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This week's text is from Jon Sobrino, Jesus the Liberator.
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Jon Sobrino: Jesus the Liberator (Tunbridge Wells: Burns and Oates, 1993), 67–70 and 79–88 and endnotes. Note, you should read Section 1 and Section 3, leaving out Section 2. You can of course read it, but we won't discuss it in class.
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Here are the endnotes for the sections of the chapter
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This week we will read a text by Leonardo Boff on base communities.
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Leonardo Boff: Ecclesiogenesis. The Base Communities Reinvent the Church (London: Collins, 2001), 1–22 and notes. There are two chapters, each in separate pdfs, and the third pdf contains the endnotes.
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This week's text is from a theologian who was born in South Korea but has lived nearly all his life in Brazil and it looks at questions about the economy and liberation theology. Jung Mo Sung, “Economics and Religion: Challenges for Christianity in the Twenty-first Century”, in Desire, Market and Religion (London: SCM, 2007). 76–99.
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This week we look at the following text: Maria Clara Bingemer, “Gender and Human Rights in Latin America”, in Maria Clara Bingemer, Latin American Theology. Roots and Branches (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2016), 69–85 (e-version without page numbers).
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Rector's Day. No class - have a nice day.
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Alongside Gustavo Gutierrez, Juan Luis Segundo, a Uruguayan Jesuit theologian, is one of the most influential figures in the development of liberation theology. This week's extract is from Juan Luis Segundo, The Liberation of Theology (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1976), 125–153.
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In this week's text, we look at an increasingly central part of Latin American liberation theology, namely eco-liberation theology. We will also look back over the course and talk about the final assignment.
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The text is by Daniel Castillo, An Ecological Theology of Liberation. Salvation and Political Ecology (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2019), Chapter 1, Towards an Ecological Theology of Liberation.
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