The Cambridge Companion to Liberation Theology

by Edited by Christopher Rowland

• ISBN13: 9780521688932
• ISBN10: 0521688930
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-12-17
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Liberation theology is widely referred to in discussions of politics and religion but not always adequately understood. The new edition of this Companion brings the story of the movement's continuing importance and impact up to date. Additional essays, which complement those in the original edition, expand upon the issues by dealing with gender and sexuality and the important matter of epistemology. In the light of a more conservative ethos in Roman Catholicism, and in theology generally, liberation theology is often said to have been an intellectual movement tied to a particular period of ecumenical and political theology. These essays indicate its continuing importance in different contexts and enable readers to locate its distinctive intellectual ethos within the evolving contextual and cultural concerns of theology and religious studies. This book will be of interest to students of theology as well as to sociologists, political theorists and historians.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	p. ix
Foreword to the second edition	p. xiii
Preface to the first edition	p. xv
Glossary	p. xviii
Abbreviations	p. xx
Introduction: the theology of liberation	p. 1
Contemporary Liberation Theology	p. 17
The task and content of liberation theology	p. 19
'Action is the life of all': the praxis-based epistemology of liberation theology	p. 39
Liberation theology in Asia	p. 55
Black theology	p. 79
Feminist theology: a critical theology of liberation	p. 105
Demythologising liberation theology: reflections on power, poverty and sexuality	p. 123
Aspects of Liberation Theology	p. 137
The origins and character of the base ecclesial community: a Brazilian perspective	p. 139
The Bible and the poor: a new way of doing theology	p. 159
Liberation and reconstruction: the unfinished agenda	p. 183
Analysis and Criticism	p. 207
Liberation theology and the Roman Catholic Church	p. 209
Marxism, liberation theology and the way of negation	p. 229
The economics of liberation theology	p. 248
Political theology, tradition and modernity	p. 265
Globalising liberation theology: the American context, and coda	p. 278
Epilogue: the future of liberation theology	p. 304
Select bibliography	p. 308
Index	p. 315
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