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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Boff, Leonardo. Introducing liberation theology. Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, ©1987 (OCoLC)624511914 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Leonardo Boff; Clodovis Boff |
| ISBN: | 0883445751 9780883445754 0883445506 9780883445501 |
| OCLC Number: | 15366399 |
| Notes: | Translation of: Como fazer teologia da libertação. |
| Description: | xi, 99 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents: | The basic question: How to be a Christian in a world of destitution -- The three levels of Liberation Theology: professional, pastoral, popular -- How Liberation Theology is done -- Key themes of Liberation Theology -- A concise history of Liberation Theology -- Liberation Theology worldwide -- From out of the oppressed: a new humanity. |
| Other Titles: | Como fazer teologia da libertação. |
| Responsibility: | Leonardo Boff, Clodovis Boff ; translated from the Portuguese by Paul Burns. |
Table of Contents:
Com-passion, "suffering with" -- Meeting the poor Christ in the poor -- The first step: liberating action, liber-a(c)tion -- The second step: faith reflects on liberating practice -- Notes -- From head to foot: A continuum of reflection -- The levels of liberation theology -- An integrated and integrating theology -- The oral and sacramental character of popular liberation theology -- Pastoral liberation theology -- How liberation theology works in practice -- The preliminary stage: Living commitment -- Three forms of commitment to the poor -- Three mediations -- Socio-analytical mediation -- Explaining the phenomenon of oppression -- Historical mediation and the struggles of the oppressed -- Relationships with Marxism -- Enlarging on the concept of "the poor" -- Hermeneutical mediation -- The Bible of the poor -- The marks of a theological-liberative hermeneutics -- Biblical books favored by liberation theology -- Recovering the great Christian tradition in the perspective of liberation -- Liberation theology and the social teaching of the church -- The creative task of theology -- Practical mediation -- Who designs the program of action? -- By way of example: How to do a "theology of land" -- Solidarity with the poor: worshiping God and communing with Christ -- Theological reasons for the option for the poor -- Theo-logical motivation -- Christological motivation -- Eschatological motivation -- Apostolic motivation -- Ecclesiological motivation -- In the final analysis, who are the poor? -- The socio-economically poor -- The evangelically poor -- Some key themes of liberation theology -- Other challenges to liberation theology -- Temptations facing liberation theology -- Antecedents -- Social and political development -- Ecclesial development -- Theological development -- Formulation -- The foundational stage -- The building stage -- The settling-in stage -- The formalization Stage -- Support and opposition -- The magisterial of the church -- A dynamic and inspiring theology -- In the third world -- In the first world -- In the second world, the Socialist bloc -- A theology with an impact -- On the universal level -- On the regional level -- On the base level -- A Public and prophetic theology -- On the civil level -- On the political level -- The historical significance of liberation theology -- Liberation: the evocative power of a word -- An appeal to all theologies -- Banner of a new society -- The dream of a truly free society.
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