Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
1996
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Abstract
The theology of liberation has by now entered the common lexicon not only of theologians, but of many people who have until recently expressed little interest in theology.1 It is a theological genre or, better, a "movement" issuing out of and responsive to the experience of the poor and suffering of history, based upon a conviction that the Gospel has direct pertinence to the concrete human condition. It calls for a liberating practice as the way salvation is to be realized in history. A theology of liberation understands the Gospel as a divine challenge to any exercise of political and economic power that would threaten the very survival of human beings. The Gospel itself calls for a transfiguration of the earthly city and human history into an image of the kingdom of God. Thus, a theology of liberation moves in two directions: toward the fulfillment of human history in the absolute freedom of eternal life, and the working out of salvation within history itself.
Chapter of
Through a Glass Darkly: Essays in the Religious Imagination
Editor
John Hawley
Recommended Citation
Crowley, P.G. (1996) Between Earth and Heaven: The Dialectical Structure of Ignatian Imagination. In John Hawley (Ed.), Through a Glass Darkly: Essays in the Religious Imagination. New York: Fordham University Press.
Comments
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