Liberation Theology
- Created by: Emily Uffindell
- Created on: 20-09-14 15:37
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- Liberation Theology
- Definition: A movement that emerged within the Catholic Church in Latin America at the end of the 1960s with a strong commitment to the poor and opposition to military dictatorships.
- Major change of Direction for the Catholic Church in Latin America.
- It had been extremely conservative institution.
- It encouraged a fatalistic acceptance of poverty and supporting wealthy elites and military dictatorships.
- The factors that led to it's emergence were:
- Growth of rural poverty and urban slums.
- Human rights abuses following military take-overs, such as false imprisonment. torture and death squads murdering political opponents,
- Example: In Argentina, Brazil and Chile.
- The growing commitment among Catholic priests to an ideology that supported the poor and oppressed violations of human rights.
- The emphasis in liberation theology is on "praxis," (practical action guided by theory.)
- For example: priests helped the poor to establish support groups, called "base communities," and helped workers and peasants to fight oppression under the protection of the church.
- Set out society
- In the 1970s, Catholic priests actively resisted state terror in Latin America.
- However, in the 1980s, the Catholic church's official attitude changed.
- Pope John Paul condemned LT because he believed that it was likened to Marxism.
- However, in the 1980s, the Catholic church's official attitude changed.
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