SÃO PAULO – Pope Francis’s death heavily impacted old-timer Liberation theologians, people who on several occasions had to struggle with the Church structure to make their voices be heard and ...

Natacha Pisarenko/AP Liberation theology developed in Latin America during the latter part of the 20th century, as a reaction to significant political and theological transformations in the area.

Still, the spirit of liberation theology, or, as it is sometimes called in tamer terms now, teología del pueblo, or theology of the people, would not be easily dispelled.

liberation theology’s use of Marxist analysis to analyse the deeper or ‘structural’ causes of social sin that have resulted in poverty, violence and injustice, including: ...

(RNS) — While liberation theology has been criticized for a view of oppression that is too simplistic, young Latin American theologians say Gutiérrez opened the doors for new movements in ...

On October 22 2004, the church of America mourned the passing of theologian Gustavo Gutierrez, best known for his influential work “Liberation Theology” published nearly fifty years ago.

Gustavo Gutiérrez Merino, the father of liberation theology and Catholic theologian who first argued for a “preferential option for the poor,” died on October 22 at the age of 96. The ...

Gustavo Gutiérrez, a founder of liberation theology, dies at 96 As a Catholic priest in Peru, he championed a new approach to theology emphasizing help for the poor and downtrodden.

Gustavo Gutiérrez, the Peruvian priest known as the “father of liberation theology,” has died at 96. Liberation theology holds that ending poverty and helping those in need is an essential ...

The Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez, Peruvian father of influential liberation theology, has died Peruvian theologian Gustavo Gutierrez, seen at a Vatican news conference in 2015, is dead at 96.

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian theologian the Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez, the father of the social justice-centered liberation theology that the Vatican once criticized for its Marxist undercurrents ...