The world come of age : an intellectual history of liberation theology / Lilian Calles Barger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barger, Lilian Calles, 1955- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liberation theology.

Physical Description:

x, 376 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]

Summary:

On November 16, 2017, Pope Francis tweeted, "Poverty is not an accident. It has causes that must be recognized and removed for the good of so many of our brothers and sisters." With this statement and others like it, the first Latin American pope was associated, in the minds of many, with a stream of theology that swept the Western hemisphere in the 1960s and 70s, the movement known as liberation theology. Born of chaotic cultural crises in Latin America and the United States, liberation theology was a trans-American intellectual movement that sought to speak for those parts of society marginalized by modern politics and religion by virtue of race, class, or sex. Led by such revolutionaries as the Peruvian Catholic priest Gustavo Gutiérrez, the African American theologian James Cone, or the feminists Mary Daly and Rosemary Radford Ruether, the liberation theology movement sought to bridge the gulf between the religious values of justice and equality and political pragmatism. It combined theology with strands of radical politics, social theory, and the history and experience of subordinated groups to challenge the ideas that underwrite the hierarchical structures of an unjust society. Praised by some as a radical return to early Christian ethics and decried by others as a Marxist takeover, liberation theology has a wide-raging, cross-sectional history that has previously gone undocumented. In The World Come of Age, Lilian Calles Barger offers for the first time a systematic retelling of the history of liberation theology, demonstrating how a group of theologians set the stage for a torrent of new religious activism that challenged the religious and political status quo.

Contents:

Origins

Religion and cultural crisis

The political is the total

The irony of America

Reconstructions

Liberatory sensibilities

New foundations

The vitalism of religion

Elaborations

A salvific social order

Secularizing religion

The feminine principle

A culture of solidarity

Reverberations

A tenuous consensus

A new orthodoxy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Barger, Lilian Calles, 1955- author. World come of age

ISBN:

9780190695392

0190695390

OCLC:

1019636066

Publisher Number:

99977621038