Latin American Liberation Theology by David Tombs

Latin American Liberation Theology by David Tombs

David Tombs offers an accessible introduction to the theological challenges raised by Latin American Liberation and a new contribution to how these challenges might be understood as a chronological sequence. Liberation theology emerged in the 1960s in Latin America and thrived until it reached a crisis in the 1990s. This work traces the distinct developments in thought through the decades, thus presenting a contextual theology. The book is divided into five main sections: the historical role of the church from Columbus's arrival in 1492 until the Cuban revolution of 1959; the reform and renewal decade of the 1960s; the transitional decade of the 1970s; the revision and redirection of liberation theology in the 1980s; and a crisis of relevance in the 1990s. This book offers insights into liberation theology's profound contributions for any socially engaged theology of the future and is crucial to understanding liberation theology and its legacies.



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David Tombs is a lay Anglican theologian and the Howard Paterson Chair Professor of Theology and Public Issues at the University of Otago, Aotearoa New Zealand. He has degrees from Oxford University, Union Theological Seminary New York, and London University. He previously worked in Belfast as Lecturer in Reconciliation Studies for the Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin, and as Lecturer in Theology at the University of Roehampton, London.

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ISBN 13	9780391041813
ISBN 10	0391041819
Title	Latin American Liberation Theology
Author	David Tombs
Series	Religion In The Americas
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Brill Academic Publishers,US
Year published	2003-02-01
Number of pages	334
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