Latin American Liberation Theology: The Next Generation
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Manufacturer: Orbis Books
EAN (European Article Number): 9781570755958
Number of Items: 1
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Orbis Books
Dewey Decimal Number: 230.0464098
Publication Date: 2005-06-30
Reading Level: 177
Description: From the back of the book:
This is a provocative book in which a group of prominent theologians and scholars or religion not only criticize strongly some of the core assumptions, understandings, and themes of early liberation theology, but also raise insightful possibilities to overcome the limitations, reconstruct the analytical frameworks, and refashion the power to engage in today's struggles for change of this living and evolving theological tradition.
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Review Summary: A Disappointment--Look Elsewhere for the Next Generation
Date: 2006-10-27
Details: While the title of this volume promises much, I found that it did not deliver. This is not to say that there aren't some interesting ideas in these critical essays. However, some problems stand out:
1) Time and again the ideas of the "first" generation that are held up to criticism seem more like straw men than real (much less generous) contextual readings of these important works.
2) The lack of theology (a 'logos' about 'theos') in many of the essays. Considering religious themes within the disciplines of the social sciences does not constitute theology--at least it didn't for the 1st generation. The lack of theology here reinforces caricatures of liberation theology.
3)The audacity of the claim that this is "the" next generation. How comprehensive is the 'new generation' represented here? Is there enough geographical diversity to say that this is the new generation of Latin American liberation theology?
In sum, it is a book not without merit, but I would hate for it to be the one volume people pick up and characterize liberation theology with it. Look elsewhere.
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Date: 2005-09-08
Details: From the back of the book:
This is a provocative book in which a group of prominent theologians and scholars or religion not only criticize strongly some of the core assumptions, understandings, and themes of early liberation theology, but also raise insightful possibilities to overcome the limitations, reconstruct the analytical frameworks, and refashion the power to engage in today's struggles for change of this living and evolving theological tradition.
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