The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology

by Lilian Calles Barger

On November 16, 2017, Pope Francis tweeted, "Poverty is not an accident. It has causes that must be recognized and removed for the good of so many of our brothers and sisters." With this statement and others like it, the first Latin American pope was associated, in the minds of many, with a stream of theology that swept the Western hemisphere in the 1960s and 70s, the movement known as liberation theology.
Born of chaotic cultural crises in Latin...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190695390
• ISBN13: 9780190695392
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.3"