Not just for warm class rooms

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Date: 10 December 2005 16:13:19

I guess that many people are like me, and if they are honest, think of liberation theology, primarily, in terms of the academic discussion we've had within warm western classrooms and look at it in terms of something which has primarily been and gone, merely leaving its imprint upon current discussion about Christian responses to injustice. We admire the sacrifice of those modern matyrs who gave their lives, but continue to think of it as primarily a late 20th century theology.

It is only when we read stories such as this one in the Guardian about a man accused of killing a nun & the discussion around the role of local landowners in a death which appears to have been caused by this woman of faith standing with the rural poor she was working amongst that we are reminded liberation theology is not an academic theology of the past but also a practical of the present.