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.
Deep, deep cover. I am a contract professor, not a tenure-track professor. The leading Marxists are all tenured and can get rid of obstreprous conservative professors who are not tenured. I know McVey and I have talked about this many times—tenure protects conservatives, not liberals. If I were tenured I could come out from under my rock.
My school is DRENCHED with the term social justice. I always wondered why the h*ll the literary and political types were ramblin’ on about this.
I’m no longer Catholic, but I even I know that liberation theology is garbage...
I'm a public school teacher in New England. Conservatives make up less than 5% of the profession.
In my personal experience - it's closer to 2%.
I'm a public school teacher in New England. Conservatives make up less than 5% of the profession.
And Godspeed to you also.
I once pranked a Liberation Theology believer, by turning his dialectic around and redefining LT as “Liberation Theocracy”.
That the people would only be “free” if ruled over by bishops, cardinals and monsignors of the Catholic church.
I freely blended Marxist ideas with religious rule. He about freaked out as I described “freedom” as living in a state like Iran, but run by Catholics.
Ques: Is Hans Kung a liberation theologist? I know he has been rebuked by the Vatican for some of his views, most notably, Papal infallibility, an often misunderstood term. I got a book called Christianity by him once, and he used a whole page to redefine the word “good” so he’s feel okay about using it in the book. I lost interest.
Its all brain memory right now. Pope John Paul II did deal with this topic very forthrightly and the search would have to be under his name and liberation theology.
The way this Catholic News Service article puts it, John Paul II went after liberation theology for its Marxist analysis, but did not denounce it outright.
I don’t see it as the whole truth, of course “social justice” is a broad term to describe what PJ II was for.
But here is link: http://www.catholicnews.com/jpii/stories/story09.htm
Unfortunately Liberation Theology is the gospel at Black liberal churches. Sad.
He chose to address questions about the the Da Vinci Code and the "Gnostic Gospels," rather than my question. I wonder why.
It makes me think of “The People’s Liberation Army” in Communist China. That whole tendency to use the exact opposite word to describe something is a trademark of the left.
Because he is a Jesuit, that’s why.
Jesuit priests and Maryknoll nuns. People began to catch on and they changed to the term “preferential option for the poor”.
This has been going on for a long time. Some priests had even taken up arms to fight alongside Communist revolutionaries in Central America.
Bttt
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