{"product_id":"the-world-come-of-age-an-intellectual-history-of-liberation-theology-9780190695392","title":"The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology","description":"On November 16, 2017, Pope Francis tweeted, Poverty is not an accident. It has causes that must be recognized and removed for the good of so many of our brothers and sisters. With this statement and others like it, the first Latin American pope was associated, in the minds of many, with a\u003cbr\u003estream of theology that swept the Western hemisphere in the 1960s and 70s, the movement known as liberation theology. \u003cbr\u003eBorn of chaotic cultural crises in Latin America and the United States, liberation theology was a trans-American intellectual movement that sought to speak for those parts of society marginalized by modern politics and religion by virtue of race, class, or sex. Led by such revolutionaries as the\u003cbr\u003ePeruvian Catholic priest Gustavo Gutiérrez, the African American theologian James Cone, or the feminists Mary Daly and Rosemary Radford Ruether, the liberation theology movement sought to bridge the gulf between the religious values of justice and equality and political pragmatism. It combined\u003cbr\u003etheology with strands of radical politics, social theory, and the history and experience of subordinated groups to challenge the ideas that underwrite the hierarchical structures of an unjust society. \u003cbr\u003ePraised by some as a radical return to early Christian ethics and decried by others as a Marxist takeover, liberation theology has a wide-raging, cross-sectional history that has previously gone undocumented. In \u003cem\u003eThe World Come of Age\u003c\/em\u003e, Lilian Calles Barger offers for the first time a systematic\u003cbr\u003eretelling of the history of liberation theology, demonstrating how a group of theologians set the stage for a torrent of new religious activism that challenged the religious and political status quo.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lilian Calles Barger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 392\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190695392\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLilian Calles Barger\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and immigrated to the United States as a child. She received her PhD from The University of Texas at Dallas and is the author of \u003cem\u003eEve's Revenge: Women and a Spirituality of the Body\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eChasing Sophia: Reclaiming the Lost Wisdom of Jesus\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40586211459187,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":67.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_b30484b7-b37f-4502-9ebb-8cdb83a4d149.jpg?v=1668694652","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-world-come-of-age-an-intellectual-history-of-liberation-theology-9780190695392","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}