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In this helpful addition to the Armchair Theologians series, Miguel A. De La Torre provides a concise overview of the global religious movement known as liberation theology that focuses on defining the major themes of this movement, as well as dispelling some common misconceptions. Liberation theology attempts to reflect upon the divine as understood from the poor, the marginalized, and the...

one’s feet; it is rooted in the physical space shared by the marginalized. The grueling walk took hours, leaving Boff with the bruised feet necesssary to better appreciate the plight of the poor. The other half of the year he would teach and write at the university on this methodology of joining praxis with academics. Along with six other priests, Boff was removed from his teaching position from Pontifical Catholic University in 1984 for his views on liberation theology. Ironically, in the fall of
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