"What we do know," said Brazilian-born theologian Leonardo Boff, "is that he's a North American with a Latin American soul." ...

Liberation theology grew out of the misbegotten “Christian-Marxist dialogue” of the 1960s and 1970s, which must seem as quaint and laughable as promoting Esperanto.

The release of Stollar’s book is the latest example of how child liberation theology is gradually making inroads in select seminaries, intergenerational churches and parenting groups.Indirectly ...

Liberation theology will likely always have its critics, but its supporters continue to build on the legacy of the past 50 years wherever they see poverty, injustice and oppression.

”For many,” he added, ”liberation theology is a good expression, but we have no association of theologians guarding the orthodoxy” of the ever-broadening movement, which incorporates some ...

"Liberation theology, from the first line of the book until the last line, is against Marxism," Gutierrez said Wednesday at an event in his honor at Fordham University's Manhattan campus.

Liberation theology proved highly controversial within the Catholic Church, angering traditionalists who accused Father Gutiérrez and his allies of interpreting the Gospels through a Marxist lens.

Gustavo Gutiérrez’s 'A Theology of Liberation' was first published in English 50 years ago. That first edition served as a primary introduction to a new way of doing theology and becoming ...

Peruvian liberation theologians never followed the terrorism of the Shining Path revolutionaries of the ’80s. At the same time, liberation theology’s relationship with the Peruvian Roman Catholic ...

Liberation theology will likely always have its critics, but its supporters continue to build on the legacy of the past 50 years wherever they see poverty, injustice and oppression.

It used to be that just saying the words “liberation theology” around Catholics was enough to start a schism-level fight, or at least raise a red flag in Rome.

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A towering figure in the Catholic theological landscape of the past century, the Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez, known as the father of liberation theology, died Tuesday night (Oct ...