“Liberation Theology” is so Sixties. Marxism disguised as Christianity. The Roman Catholic Church recognized it as such and shut it down, but I guess this shows it still flourishes in some quarters. “An analysis of the phenomenon of liberation theology reveals that it constitutes a fundamental threat to the faith of the Church.” — Cardinal Ratzinger
“Bishop David Alvarez, Diocese of Puerto Rico, moderated the afternoon session on “Prophetic Proclamation and Liberation Theology,” with …. All three speakers spoke of how the principles of liberation theology, which is God’s good news for the poor, can speak to our various church contexts. “There is only God and the poor,” said Regina, highlighting the importance of this theological understanding for authentic biblical witness today.”
What an utter waste of time. I feel pity for them. The Catholic Church addressed this during the mid 80’s and now the Episcopal Church is finally taking this up?
Liberation Theology = Communism with Jesus language, plus or minus guns. The real faith news out of Latin America is the flourishing of evangelical faith. More evangelicals now worship each week than Roman Catholics.
The leading evangelical groups seem to be the Nazarenes and the Adventists. I’ve worked in quite a few Andean villages in which there is a nearly abandoned RC church at one end of town — with a very aged priest who comes by perhaps twice a year (at best), and at the other end of town an evangelical church packed to the rafters both Saturday and Sunday because the Adventistas and the Nazarenos built it together as their common worship facility.
In Colombia and Peru especially it was Liberation Theology which drove the overwhelming majority of campesinos and villagers away from the Roman Catholics.
Which one? I never noticed a trace of it from either down there.
What I did notice was growing prosperity in those villages because the traditional cultural norm of [i]El hombre es de la calle y la mujer de la casa[/i] — the man is of the street and the woman of the home — usually meant drunkenness, unemployment, gambling, and promiscuity.
Both churches have shown those men a much better way and prosperity has followed. There is an emerging middle class in much of South America because evangelical churches have effectively preached a gospel which changes lives.
All the incense and statues and liberation theology and set-piece incantations can’t … if you will … hold a candle to it.
Jim the Puritan (#1.) said,
“’Liberation Theology’ is so Sixties. Marxism disguised as Christianity.”
It is “Marxism disguised as Christianity.”
You CANNOT be a Marxist and a Christian at the same time.
Anyone who thinks that you be both a fully committed Christian and a fully committed Marxist has a poorly formed concept of what it means to be a Christian or a poorly formed concept of what Marxism is or is equally ignorant of both belief systems.
Bart, I don’t know if you have had a chance to visit the blog Northwest Anglican. A really good read by a young Army doctor. He visited Guatemala recently and found himself in a prosperity gospel church: [url=http://northwestanglican.blogspot.com/2011/05/drug-money-or-church-money.html ]”Drug-money or church-money?” [/url] They are mostly independent and I haven’t found them too hard to find, unfortunately.
Liberation theology is a fine concept…as long as it’s liberation from sin and death that comes only through the death, resurrection, and ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ. Since TEC has abandoned the Christian faith, they have to recycle failed ideologies and enjoy old heresies and simply dress them up again. Lord have mercy.
Ad Orientem is so right. They flew all these people down to Ecuador to feed them this bile. The waste of diocesan resources and the burden of the environmental footprint at this gathering is criminal.
“Liberation Theology” is so Sixties. Marxism disguised as Christianity. The Roman Catholic Church recognized it as such and shut it down, but I guess this shows it still flourishes in some quarters. “An analysis of the phenomenon of liberation theology reveals that it constitutes a fundamental threat to the faith of the Church.” — Cardinal Ratzinger
“Bishop David Alvarez, Diocese of Puerto Rico, moderated the afternoon session on “Prophetic Proclamation and Liberation Theology,” with …. All three speakers spoke of how the principles of liberation theology, which is God’s good news for the poor, can speak to our various church contexts. “There is only God and the poor,” said Regina, highlighting the importance of this theological understanding for authentic biblical witness today.”
What an utter waste of time. I feel pity for them. The Catholic Church addressed this during the mid 80’s and now the Episcopal Church is finally taking this up?
Liberation Theology = Communism with Jesus language, plus or minus guns. The real faith news out of Latin America is the flourishing of evangelical faith. More evangelicals now worship each week than Roman Catholics.
The leading evangelical groups seem to be the Nazarenes and the Adventists. I’ve worked in quite a few Andean villages in which there is a nearly abandoned RC church at one end of town — with a very aged priest who comes by perhaps twice a year (at best), and at the other end of town an evangelical church packed to the rafters both Saturday and Sunday because the Adventistas and the Nazarenos built it together as their common worship facility.
In Colombia and Peru especially it was Liberation Theology which drove the overwhelming majority of campesinos and villagers away from the Roman Catholics.
Unfortunately, one the flourishing churches is the prosperity gospel sect.
Which one? I never noticed a trace of it from either down there.
What I did notice was growing prosperity in those villages because the traditional cultural norm of [i]El hombre es de la calle y la mujer de la casa[/i] — the man is of the street and the woman of the home — usually meant drunkenness, unemployment, gambling, and promiscuity.
Both churches have shown those men a much better way and prosperity has followed. There is an emerging middle class in much of South America because evangelical churches have effectively preached a gospel which changes lives.
All the incense and statues and liberation theology and set-piece incantations can’t … if you will … hold a candle to it.
Jim the Puritan (#1.) said,
“’Liberation Theology’ is so Sixties. Marxism disguised as Christianity.”
It is “Marxism disguised as Christianity.”
You CANNOT be a Marxist and a Christian at the same time.
Anyone who thinks that you be both a fully committed Christian and a fully committed Marxist has a poorly formed concept of what it means to be a Christian or a poorly formed concept of what Marxism is or is equally ignorant of both belief systems.
Bart, I don’t know if you have had a chance to visit the blog Northwest Anglican. A really good read by a young Army doctor. He visited Guatemala recently and found himself in a prosperity gospel church: [url=http://northwestanglican.blogspot.com/2011/05/drug-money-or-church-money.html ]”Drug-money or church-money?” [/url] They are mostly independent and I haven’t found them too hard to find, unfortunately.
Liberation theology is a fine concept…as long as it’s liberation from sin and death that comes only through the death, resurrection, and ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ. Since TEC has abandoned the Christian faith, they have to recycle failed ideologies and enjoy old heresies and simply dress them up again. Lord have mercy.
Christmas decorations — is that the best he could do?
Further evidence that TEO has devolved into little more than a far left social club.
+Dan Martins has a thoughtful reflection here:
[=http://cariocaconfessions.blogspot.com/2011/09/liberation-theology-revisited.html]Confessions of a Carioca[/url]
Bruce Robison
Ad Orientem is so right. They flew all these people down to Ecuador to feed them this bile. The waste of diocesan resources and the burden of the environmental footprint at this gathering is criminal.
Are mistresses allowed too under the new dispensation? I’m unclear if they’re to be included under the “partners” rubric.
Apologies, I think my question refers to the HOB report for the following day: http://new.kendallharmon.net/wp-content/uploads/index.php/t19/article/38632/
Well of course, Driver8. Why ever not? And if the wife is there too, the more the merrier. That would be the Mormon wing of the cult.