The alleged subordination of the gospel to Karl Marx is illustrated, for example, by charging that «false» liberation theology concentrates too much on a few selected
biblical texts that are always given a political meaning, leading to an overemphasis on «material» poverty and neglecting other kinds of poverty; that this leads to a «temporal messianism» that confuses the Kingdom of God with a purely «earthly» new society, so that the gospel is collapsed into nothing but political endeavor; that the emphasis on social sin and structural evil leads to an ignoring or forgetting of the reality of personal sin; that everything is
reduced to praxis (the interplay of action and reflection) as the only criterion of faith, so that the notion of
truth is compromised; and that the emphasis on communidades de base sets a so - called «people's church» against the hierarchy.
I am sorry I ever used it, particularly since the project for «demythologizing» the Bible has been undertaken and bids fair to
reduce the
Biblical revelation to eternally valid
truths without any existential encounters between God and man.