Journal of Africana Religions, Vol. 7, No. 2, Special Issue: James. H. Cone and Black Theology in Africana Perspective (2019), pp. 255-272 (18 pages) https://doi.org ...

(The Conversation) — The influential movement, which is still controversial both inside and outside Catholicism, must be understood in the context of Latin American history. (The Conversation) — It ...

Pope Francis has an odd sense of timing. Last week he led the Vatican in embracing climate change orthodoxy just as it is becoming weaker than ever. But the real eyebrow raiser is the upcoming Vatican ...

VATICAN CITY — Six months after becoming the first Latin American pontiff, Pope Francis invited an octogenarian priest from Peru for a chat at his Vatican residence. News of the September 2013 meeting ...

It used to be that just saying the words “liberation theology” around Catholics was enough to start a schism-level fight, or at least raise a red flag in Rome. The theological movement that focused on ...

Moving forward always requires rigorous internal criticism of ourselves and the traditions we love. This applies not only to liberal Christians who congratulate themselves for not being like those ...

Few Americans had heard of black liberation theology until Rev. Jeremiah Wright appeared in the spotlight during the 2008 presidential campaigns. President Obama and his family attended Wright’s ...

According to Glenn Beck, President Obama is a “liberation theologist.” What exactly is liberation theology? Strictly defined it’s a movement in Christian theology which interprets the teachings of ...

The Journal of Law and Religion is an interfaith, interdisciplinary peer-reviewed English language academic and professional journal devoted to issues that engage both theology and law. The Journal ...

Liberation Theology: A March to Freedom explores the conceptual framework of “liberation theology” — a branch of Theology developed by Catholics and Christians looking to examine the church’s role in ...

In “God of the Oppressed,” James Cone recounts how Christian responses to the 1967 Detroit riot revealed not only an insensitivity to black suffering but a larger theological bankruptcy on the part of ...

SAO PAULO, Brazil -- Magno Marcieta, 28, hopes to become a priest next year, taking 11 years of quiet religious study into the poverty-stricken streets of the country with more Roman Catholics than ...