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Article: METHOD IN LIBERATION THEOLOGIES.(Critical Essay)
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- Theological Studies
- Article date:
- March 1, 2000
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FUTURE HISTORIANS OF CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY will no doubt judge liberation theology to be the most influential movement of the twentieth century, possibly even since the Reformation.(1) They certainly will painstakingly document its emergence as independent theological movements in the late 1960s and will marvel at its spectacular expansion throughout the entire oikoumene in a matter of just a couple of decades.(2) The profound influence of liberation theology will be evident not only from the way it has penetrated far-flung countries and continents and permeated all the branches of Christian theology, from biblical studies through systematics to ethics,(3) but also from the ...