[Ryde]

Ping for education list

[traviskicks]

Maybe this is something along what you’re looking for?

http://www.neoperspectives.com/personal_responsibility.htm

[lastchance]

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

[Scarchin]

I complained to the President of Holy Cross (my alma mater) about this. In my complaint, I said that the Pope had said that Liberation Theology could not be taught.

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...

[Nextrush]

“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.

[sageb1]

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.

[outofstyle]

liberation theology

Someone aught to appropriate that term and apply it to our current struggle against the the Islamic theology of enslavement.

[Scarchin]

Catholic ping?

[Theo]

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.

[Scarchin]

Can you share the name of the school? Or are you under “deep cover”? ;)

[darkangel82]

I’m no longer Catholic, but I even I know that liberation theology is garbage...

[Popocatapetl]

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.

[MtnClimber]

I recall that Barak Obama’s church espouses black liberation theology.

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.

[CORedneck]

Interesting seeing the term. The H.S. I went to was a Catholic school and our religion department, some of former nuns were into the social justice stuff. One of the teachers I remembered was a former nun, she is now in Arcata, CA as a professor at Humboldt State. She was very liberal such as for homosexuality, anti-meat/leather, pro Jane Fonda. One of my friends at the time wore his leather jacket to class and he got chewed for that. In addition his father is a Viet Nam veteran. One day she was talking about Michelin Tires and how she supported them in their corporate PR programs. He got real p*ssed to the point where the teacher mentioned that he better show respect or he be going to the Deans office. He told her to where to go and volunteered to go to the Deans office. My friend’s family will not buy Michelin because they paid off the Viet Cong and let the V.C. used their rubber plantations to shoot at American soldiers.

[Abcdefg]

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.

[Zippo44]

Bttt

[Amelia]

I’m not very familiar with liberation theology but I think it’s very close to liberation pedagogy. The big name there would be Paulo Friere.