A_Theology_of_Liberation

<i>A Theology of Liberation</i>

A Theology of Liberation

1971 book by Gustavo Gutiérrez

A Theology of Liberation (Spanish: Teología de la liberación: Perspectivas) is a 1971 book by the Peruvian Roman Catholic theologian Gustavo Gutiérrez. The book was foundational to the development of liberation theology, a term coined by Gutiérrez in his 1968 lecture "Hacia una teología de la liberación" ('Towards a theology of liberation').[1]

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Originally published in Spanish, the work has been translated into nine languages as of 1989.[2] The first English translation was made by Caridad Inda and John Eagleson.[citation needed] The translation sold over 50,000 copies in the twenty months following its publication in 1973.[2]

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  1. [1]
    Maduro 2008, p. 435.
  2. [2]
    Blue 1989, p. 20.

Bibliography

  • Blue, John Ronald (1989). Origins of Gustavo Gutiérrez' "A Theology of Liberation" (PhD dissertation). Arlington, Texas: University of Texas at Arlington.
  • Maduro, Otto (2008). "Liberation Theology". In Darity, William A. Jr. (ed.). International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Vol. 4 (2nd ed.). Detroit, Michigan: Macmillan Reference USA. pp. 434–437. ISBN 978-0-02-866117-9. Retrieved 31 March 2022 – via Encyclopedia.com.


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