Liberation Theology: An Introductory Reader

In the past twenty-five years, liberation theology has emerged as one of the most influential, challenging, and controversial movements in modern theology. Whether in its Asian, African, Latin American, or African-American forms, liberation theology has undertaken to reexamine the dimensions of Christian faith from the perspective of the marginalized and oppressed.

Here, at last, is a collection of readings from a cross-section of the world’s leading exponents of liberation theology, designed to offer an overview of liberation theology and its central themes. Topics included are methodology, christology, ecclesiology, and spirituality. Each chapter includes a helpful introduction and questions for discussion, making this an ideal introductory text for students, as well as scholars and other general readers.

Contributors:

Maria Pilar Aquino

Tissa Balasuriya

Dominique Barbe

Clodovis Boff

Leonardo Boff

Ernesto Cardenal

Chung Hyun Kyung

James H. Cone

Jean-Marc Ela

Ivone Gebara

Gustavo Gutierrez

Mary Hunt

Sallie McFague

Mary John Mananzan

Carlos Mesters

Anne Nasimiyu-Wasike

Sun Ai Park

Jon Sobrino

Charles Villa-Vicencio

Yong Ting Jin

Curt Cadorette is Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Rochester; Dr. Marie Giblin is Associate Professor in the Theology Graduate Program at Xavier University; Marilyn Legge is Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at Emmanuel College of Victoria University, Toronto; and Mary Hembrow Snyder teaches in the Philosophy and Religious Studies Department at Mercyhurst College.