On the side of the poor : the theology of liberation / Gustavo Gutiérrez and Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller ; translated by Robert A. Krieg and James B. Nickoloff.
Theology: an ecclesial function / Gustavo Gutiérrez -- Liberating experience: a stimulus for European theology / Gerhard Ludwig Müller -- The situation and tasks of liberation theology today / Gustavo Gutiérrez -- Liberation theology in context / Gerhard Ludwig Müller -- Where will the poor sleep? / Gustavo Gutiérrez -- The common future of the church / Gerhard Ludwig Müller.
Summary:
For many years the theology of liberation, which emerged from Latin America in the 1970's, was viewed with suspicion in Rome. It was the subject of a critical notification from the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and many of its leading proponents were disciplined or silenced. Now, an historic exchange between Gustavo Gutierrez, author of the seminal work A Theology of Liberation, and Cardinal Muller, the current Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Fiath, signals a new chapter in this ongoing dialogue. Cardinal Muller, a former student of Gutierrez who spent many summers working in Peru, writes with deep feeling and conviction about the contributions of liberation theology to church teaching--particularly in articulating the preferential option for the poor. In his contributions, Gutierrez lays out the essential ideas of liberation theology, its ecclesial location, and its fresh enunciation of the gospel for our time.
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