Politics and Redemption: Faith, Rationality and the Irrational in So-called Liberation Theology

  • Year 1986
  • Type Essay
  • Genre political theology
  • Tradition Catholic
  • Original language German

For For readers of the debates on liberation theology in the 1980s; a short academic lecture.

Should I read this?

For the general reader
1 of 5 specialist interest
For the researcher
4 of 5 important
Difficulty
4 of 5 hard

A lecture on liberation theology and the relation of faith, politics and reason.

How it proceeds
  • Philosophic 4 of 5
  • Scriptural 1 of 5
  • Experiential 0 of 5
  • Sociological 5 of 5
  • Historical 3 of 5

Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.

A lecture published in 1986 by the Westdeutscher Verlag in Opladen in the humanities series of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften (G 279), on the relation of faith, rationality and the irrational in liberation theology. It belongs to the years in which he issued, as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the two instructions on liberation theology (1984 and 1986).

Catalog IDW.MR5GPA.F

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