{"id":6316,"date":"2009-11-16T13:33:59","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T18:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=6316"},"modified":"2009-11-16T13:33:59","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T18:33:59","slug":"sad-news-liberation-theology-is-not-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/sad-news-liberation-theology-is-not-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Sad news: Liberation Theology is not dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oikoumene.org\/en\/news\/news-management\/eng\/a\/article\/\/liberation-theology-is-al.html\" target=\"_blank\">lives on<\/a> in the World Council of Churches: luckily, the WCC itself is almost dead:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, twenty years ago, many critics have been quick to sign liberation theology&#8217;s death certificate. Most of them did so because they understood it to be an apology of bygone Soviet-style socialism. It seems, though, that this death certificate has been issued prematurely.<\/p>\n<p>It is true that liberation theologians \u2013 some more than others \u2013 used Marxist categories for socioeconomic analysis and for a critique of capitalism&#8217;s evils. However, the core of liberation theology has never been Marxism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If the core of Liberation Theology is not Marxist, we would expect to find it agitating for the \u201cliberation\u201d of the oppressed in left-wing dictatorships like China and Cuba; instead, it plays the prancing sycophant to them &#8211; because it really does have Marxism, not Christianity at its core.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It lives on in the World Council of Churches: luckily, the WCC itself is almost dead: Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, twenty years ago, many critics have been quick to sign liberation theology&#8217;s death certificate. Most of them &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/sad-news-liberation-theology-is-not-dead\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[330],"tags":[2288],"class_list":["post-6316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-council-of-churches","tag-world-council-of-churches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}