This is the credo and seminal text of the movement which was later characterized as liberation theology. This powerful, compassionate and radical book attracted criticism for daring to mix politics and religion in so daring a manner.[...]

Through the publication of his classic work, A Theology of Liberation, Gustavo Guti rrez, a Dominican priest from Lima, Peru, permanently altered the modern theological landscape, challenging all theologians and the world church to hear the gospel message from the "underside of history," the perspec[...]

"Since the 1973 publication of Gustavo Gutierrez's groundbreaking work A Theology of Liberation, liberation theology's central premise of the preferential option for the poor has become one of the most important yet controversial theological themes of the twentieth century. As the situation for many[...]