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Ivan Petrella, The Future of Liberation Theology: An Argument and Manifesto

Ivan Petrella, The Future of Liberation Theology: An Argument and Manifesto Book Reviews Ivan Petrella. 2004. The Future of Liberation Theology: An Argument and Manifesto. Ashgate, pp. 186, hb, £45.00. The Argument is that Liberation Theology has shown itself incapable of responding to the present circumstances; the Manifesto is that properly reformed it can once again address the issue of the liberation of the poor. Liberation Theology always insisted that it began with social reality, the dehumanizing conditions of the lives of the poor throughout Latin America. Petrella is well informed and favourably disposed but omits to mention that the conditions of poverty were brought about by capitalism: social reality also required the ideological analysis of the interests of those who benefited from this inequity – national, international and ecclesial. Liberation from these conditions and from the interests responsible for them was indeed a historical project. It is Petrella’s thesis that with the end of history, the demise of socialism – he could have added the reRomanization of the Catholic Church under John Paul II – the historical project has been dismantled. Liberation Theology now continues by repeating the rhetoric of a previous stage, by distancing itself from Marxist analysis, by returning to traditional, safe theological subjects or by http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Studies in World Christianity Edinburgh University Press

Ivan Petrella, The Future of Liberation Theology: An Argument and Manifesto

Kee, Alistair
Studies in World Christianity , Volume 11 (2): 270 – Oct 1, 2005
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Book Reviews Ivan Petrella. 2004. The Future of Liberation Theology: An Argument and Manifesto. Ashgate, pp. 186, hb, £45.00. The Argument is that Liberation Theology has shown itself incapable of responding to the present circumstances; the Manifesto is that properly reformed it can once again address the issue of the liberation of the poor. Liberation Theology always insisted that it began with social reality, the dehumanizing conditions of the lives of the poor throughout Latin America. Petrella is well informed and favourably disposed but omits to mention that the conditions of poverty were brought about by capitalism: social reality also required the ideological analysis of the interests of those who benefited from this inequity – national, international and ecclesial. Liberation from these conditions and from the interests responsible for them was indeed a historical project. It is Petrella’s thesis that with the end of history, the demise of socialism – he could have added the reRomanization of the Catholic Church under John Paul II – the historical project has been dismantled. Liberation Theology now continues by repeating the rhetoric of a previous stage, by distancing itself from Marxist analysis, by returning to traditional, safe theological subjects or by

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