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Article: Liberation theology founder dead at 70. (Father Juan Luis Segundo)(Obituary)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- February 2, 1996
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Jesuit Fr. Juan Luis Segundo, one of the founders of liberation theology and one of Latin America's most prominent theologians, died Jan. 17 of an obstruction in an artery. He was 70 years old.
Along with a handful of other theologians who, in the late 1960s and '70s, began connecting the experiences of Latin America's poor to the gospels, Segundo revolutionized the way many Christians viewed the mission of church. He and others like slain Salvadoran Jesuit Ignacio Ellacuria and Peru's Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez were among those who made liberation theology a household term in North America and Europe, challenging millions of consciences along the way.
Segundo ...