Posted on 05/08/2007 7:11:08 AM PDT by Ryde
I noticed that my college is now offering a FIELD-WORK course in liberation theology. That means, from what little I know on the subject (hey, I'm a number-cruncher) that this course is dedicated not to classroom study (I would have no trouble there--I do believe in academic freedom), but to actually going out and taking one side politically--and that side is the pursuit of Marxist solutions. Am I nuts?
Wasn't Liberation Theology condemned by Rome at some point in here?
I Googled the term and became more appalled, but I could not find (probably because I did not exactly what I was looking for) the rebuttals and conservative reaction to this. But this seems . . . well, like brainwashing.
So I thought I would flip it over to FR and see what light Freepers can shed on what appears to be a dark topic.
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Maybe this is something along what you’re looking for?
http://www.neoperspectives.com/personal_responsibility.htm
Thank you, Travis
Thanks for the list, McVey
Pope Benedict XVI when he was a Cardinal wrote some very insightful essays on Liberation Theology. Recently the Congregation For The Doctrine of the Faith censured the writings of a prominent Liberation theologian. I do not recall his name.
I would suggest searching the Vatican website www.vatican.va
Thank you.
I got the ultimate "Clinton" reply:
In effect he replied "The Pope didn't say we couldn't TEACH it - he only condemned it."
Then the school showed the Vagina Monologues on Ash Wednesday - not a penny ever from me...
“Liberation Theology” which could be called “Jesus Marx” (what an oxymoron) was very much on Pope John Paul II’s heresy list.
He went after it and its practicioners including a finger waving rebuke of defrocked priests involved in Nicaragua’s Sandinista government. The Pope met them when he landed for a powerful visit buring the Communist dicatorship of the 1980’s.
It is being used by Marxist professors as an extension of the rest of the baloney they teach. There is a very fine line here and as a Catholic, I see too much of it in the Church. The biggest danger, however, is that the left politicos started promoting Liberation Theology and making buddy-buddy with those who believe in it after values voters got Bush elected. It works in their attempts to create class warfare.
Someone aught to appropriate that term and apply it to our current struggle against the the Islamic theology of enslavement.
Catholic ping?
Do you know of any sources that I could cite? I think I can actually go to our board on this one.
Others have pointed this out already, but it is a sythesis of Christianity and Marxism. Pretty bad theology. Christ is sufficient — no need to merge His teachings with those of Marx, a noted atheist.
Can you share the name of the school? Or are you under “deep cover”? ;)
Which school is this? Is it a government-funded school?
Yes, I hope a Catholic ping!
Google “Ernesto Cardenal”
At the same time you may want to research “social justice.” That’s another term they intertwine with this BS. Popular at Jesuit colleges.
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