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Mountains Beyond Mountains
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- He also did some reading about the branch of Catholicism called liberation theology, which Romero had been murdered for preaching.†
Chpt 2.6 *
- He was already attracted to liberation theology.†
Chpt 2.8
- Almost all the peasants he was meeting shared a belief that seemed like a distillation of liberation theology: "Everybody else hates us," they'd tell him, "but God loves the poor more.†
Chpt 2.8
- Liberation theology, with its emphasis on the horrors of poverty and on redressing them in the here and now, its emphasis on service and remediation, seemed to fit the circumstances of Haiti.†
Chpt 2.8
- The central imperative of liberation theology—to provide a preferential option for the poor—seemed like a worthy life's goal to him.†
Chpt 2.8
- Farmer remembered, "I'd been looking all over for the progressive, liberation theology church in Haiti, and here it was."†
Chpt 2.11
- Haiti had not only the most popular elected head of state in the world but one who professed liberation theology and had promised to lift the country into "dignified poverty."†
Chpt 2.11
- Jim's mother had come from South Korea—a grandfather had served as a minister to the last Korean king—and she had studied at Union Theological Seminary with Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich and become a Confucian scholar, and ended up for many years a housewife in Muscatine.†
Chpt 3.19theological = relating to the study of religion
- The Marxist analysis, which liberation theology borrowed, seemed to him undeniably accurate.†
Chpt 4.21
- "It's an ology, after all," he had written to me about liberation theology.†
Chpt 4.21
Definitions:
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(1)
(theology) the study of religion; or a particular system or school of religious beliefs
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)