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Article: Future of liberation theology is down road to ecumenism. (Column)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- April 9, 1993
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Liberation theology is in a new moment in Latin America. New forms are born as the older ones are proved inadequate. Liberation theology was shaped in the 1960s and 1970s during a particular period in the Latin American societies and the Catholic church. The Cuban revolution in 1959 and the revolutionary struggles in many other countries, such as Nicaragua and El Salvador, against the traditional oligarchies appeared to make a Latin American version of socialism the hope of the future.
At the same time, the Second Vatican Council and the Latin American church council at Medellin in 1968 opened a vista to a new church committed to the poor and to social ...