The Future of Liberation Theology: An Argument and Manifesto - Hardcover

Petrella, Ivan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0754640515 ISBN 13: 9780754640516

Publisher: Routledge, 2004

Synopsis

The Future of Liberation Theology envisions a radical new direction for Latin American liberation theology. One of a new generation of Latin American theologians, Ivan Petrella shows that despite the current dominance of 'end of history' ideology, liberation theologians need not abandon their belief that the theological rereading of Christianity must be linked to the development of 'historical projects' - models of political and economic organization that would replace an unjust status quo. In the absence of historical projects, liberation theology currently finds itself unable to move beyond merely talking about liberation toward actually enacting it in society. Providing a bold new interpretation of the current state and potential future of liberation theology, Ivan Petrella brings together original research on the movement, with developments in political theory, critical legal theory and political economy to reconstruct liberation theology's understanding of theology, democracy and capitalism. The result is the recovery of historical projects, thus allowing liberation theologians to once again place the reality of liberation, and not just the promise, at the forefront of their task.

About this title

About the Author:

Ivan Petrella is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Miami, USA.

Review:

"...the book is persuasive: elegant, clear, without a trace of jargon." -- John Burdick, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Syracuse University, USA

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0754640515
• ISBN 13: 9780754640516
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192