Latin American Theology: Roots and Branches

by Maria Clara Bingemer

With the emergence of liberation theology in the 1970s, Latin American theology made a bold entrance on the world scene. The immediate roots of this theology were in the efforts of the Latin American bishops at the 1968 Medellin Conference to reflect on the implications of the Second Vatican Council for a continent marked by poverty and social injustice. That conference charted a new "preferential option for the poor," and fostered a new method of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1626981841
• ISBN13: 9781626981843
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Orbis Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.1"