Ivan Petrella

The Future of Liberation Theology

An Argument and Manifesto

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

There is a notion amongst some academics that Latin American Liberation Theology has had its day, a dream killed off by the Nicaraguan and Salvadoran revolutions, the 1989 demise of socialism and the end of history claims of the champions of capitalism. However in this book Petrella proves this to be an ill-conceived notion, and shows that this theology can be reinvented to bring its preferential option for the poor into the real world. The actualisation of historical projects is possible by adopting the methods developed by the Brazilian champion of critical legal studies, Robert Unger. Doing so will entail the rejection of these theologians unitary concepts of a despised and rejected capitalism and a canonized and accepted socialism. Petrella argues for a reconstruction of these concepts and those of democracy and property too. He closely analyses the differences in democracy and capitalism as practised across the USA and Europe in support for the reconstruction of these concepts bringing about far-reaching suggestions for the future of liberation theology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: SCM Press
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780334040613
• ISBN-10: 0334040612
• Artikelnr.: 21762555

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Liberation Theology today: the missing historical project
Liberation Theology as the construction of historical projects
Liberation Theology, democracy and historical projects
Liberation Theology, capitalism and historical projects
Liberation Theology, institutional imagination and historical projects
Liberation Theology as the construction of historical projects revisited
Conclusion
Appendix
References
Index.