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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 *liberation = the act of being set free
- 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 theologians had a similar answer: "You want to see where Christ crucified abides today?†
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
- He went to the University of Iowa and felt liberated there until he was told that Ivy League schools were better.†
Chpt 3.19liberated = set free
- He told Farmer that he felt liberated from "the self-hatred and evasion of ethnicity" he'd felt in Muscatine.†
Chpt 3.19
- The Marxist analysis, which liberation theology borrowed, seemed to him undeniably accurate.†
Chpt 4.21liberation = the act of being set free
- "It's an ology, after all," he had written to me about liberation theology.†
Chpt 4.21
Definitions:
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(1)
(liberate) to set free -- as from prison, political oppression, persecution, expectations...
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) In chemistry liberate can specifically mean to free something (such as a gas) from a compound through chemical reaction. Even more rarely, liberate is used in a humorous way as a synonym for stealing (taking without permission).