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Article: Women, native people challenge theology: liberation theories winning few friends.
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- September 15, 1995
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Twenty-five years after it swept the Latin American church with a clarion call for the poor, liberation theology, like the wineskins of the gospel, is bursting at the seams.
Changes within Latin American society and the church have altered the shape of liberation theology, giving it a lower profile worldwide. And, leading scholars say, liberation theology is facing major challenges from women, indigenous peoples and members of ecological movements. The theological visions of these sectors do not fit comfortably within the "classical" framework that characterized liberation theology during the 1970s and 1980s.
The presence of these new actors on the theological ...