Presentation: Christianity of Liberation and Liberation Theology in Latin America

Abstract

Society and Culture publishes in this edition the special issue Christianity of Liberation and Liberation Theology in Latin America. It is an effort to gather the most recent analysis of the main specialists regarding this phenomenon, which has become less mediatic since the 2000s, but which remains alive in the Latin American context. Liberation Theology (LT) has its origin mainly in Latin America, based on the convergence of internal and external changes that result from modernity lived by the Catholic Church and some protestant churches in the second half of the 20th century. It is a theological thought that is born from the perspective of interpreting Latin American reality in light of the Gospel, using Marxist terms and concepts, while also affirming a “preferential option for the poor”, in other words, a political choice guided by the notion of social class.