The Brazilian, Roman Catholic theologian Leonardo Boff (born 1938) may well be right in saying that the
Theology of Liberation is «the first theology from the Third World with worldwide resonance» 10 Not least because of its very critical reception in the West, especially in Rome, it has not been possible to remain indifferent to it or simply ig
Theology of
Liberation is «the first
theology from the Third World with worldwide resonance» 10 Not least because of its very critical reception in the West, especially in Rome, it has not been possible to remain indifferent to it or simply ig
theology from the Third World with worldwide resonance» 10 Not least because of its very critical reception in the West, especially in Rome, it has not been possible to remain indifferent to it or
simply ignore it.
It also is holistic, searches for equal partnership and egalitarian scholarships, searching for an inclusive imagery for God, it is contextual and
liberation theology and it searches for a new anthropology.18 Judith Plaskow summarizes women's experience as: «it means
simply.
Just as
liberation theologians have shown that human
liberation can not be considered
simply as an additional topic tacked on to an otherwise unchanged
theology, so also changing the way human beings relate to the natural world can not be
simply an additional item on the already overcrowded agenda of the churches.