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The Origins and Early Development of Liberation Theology in Latin America: With Particular Reference to Gustavo Gutiérrez is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this volume, Eddy José Muskus provides an academic analysis of the roots of liberation theology, challenging the claim that it arose from the Latin American poor and maintaining instead that its fundamental tenets had their origin in Europe. Muskus argues further that the writings of the 16th century Bartolomé de Las Casas have been misinterpreted and misused by liberation theologians such as...

knowledge of the situation, finds his own language and makes himself, less dependent, freer, committing himself to the transformation and construction of society’.7 The agenda is clear: the poor must become aware of their condition and through this process seek to build up a society that is just, free and more humane. But the pertinent question I sought to answer was: Who makes the poor aware of their new role as historical subjects and agents of their own history? Someone must make them aware of
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