liberation theology
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- noun
- /ˌlɪbəˈreɪʃən θiˈɑlədʒi/
- Specialized
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teología de la liberación
- In many Catholic circles, liberation theology is seen as a necessary response to global poverty and injustice.
- liberation theology in Latin
- liberation theology in America
- black liberation theology
The Pope is, first of all, an adherent of what's called liberation theology, hard left wing Catholic doctrine.
- The Pope is, first of all, an adherent of what's called liberation theology, hard left wing Catholic doctrine.
Examples
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Black and other liberation theologies recognize, however, that human identity embraces more than culture.
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Herein lies the importance of liberation theology for this continent.
Academic text (1990) -
I mentioned above that liberation theology represented a break from a traditional Catholic approach to social problems.
Academic text (1992) -
Recent efforts at a Jewish liberation theology, like most forms of Christian liberation theology, have done so too.
Academic text (1990) -
Even noted conservative opponents of liberation theology in Latin America have had little good to say about capitalism.
Academic text (1992) -
James Cone tries to develop something like liberation theology, but from an African American perspective.
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Thanks to the influence of political and liberation theologies, such a desideratum is now widely accepted.
Academic text (1990) -
We have seen, then, three reasons why liberation theology was led to embrace a broadly left-wing political agenda.
Academic text (1992) -
The ELN began as a student movement with links to the liberation theology strand of the Catholic Church.
Academic text (1999) -
Arguably, migrants today constitute an "underclass" or, in the context of liberation theology, the "underside of history."
Academic text (2008)
Surface Forms
Morphology
Both constituent nouns have clear, literal meanings so a learner who knows 'liberation' (freedom from oppression) and 'theology' (religious teachings) can compositionally infer this is theology concerned with liberation from oppression. The noun-noun combination follows regular compositional patterns and has direct equivalents in other languages (e.g., Spanish 'teología de la liberación'), making the meaning accessible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
The term liberation theology combines liberation, the idea of freeing people, and theology, 'study of God'. One popular story says that in the 1960s and 1970s many priests in Latin America read the Bible as a call to help poor people and to 'free' them from unfair social, political, and economic systems. So, liberation theology today means a Christian way of thinking that focuses on helping the poor and fighting injustice.