Liberation Theology at the Crossroads: Democracy or Revolution?

by Paul E. Sigmund

Book Overview

Liberation theology originated in Catholic Latin America at the end of the 1960s in response to prevalent conditions of poverty and oppression. Its basic tenet was that it is the primary duty of the church to seek to promote social and economic justice. Since that time it has grown in influence, spreading to other areas of the Third World, along with bitter controversy about its ties to Marxist ideology and violent revolution. Drawing on both English...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019507274X
• ISBN13: 9780195072747
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"