Theology for a Liberating Church

The New Praxis of Freedom

By: Alfred T. Hennelly

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Paperback | 3 March 1989

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Freedom is a fundamental Christian theological category, as much a challenge to construct a new way of seeing oneself and others as it is an announcement of what Christ has already done for us in his death and resurrection. Liberation theology is, most simply, the effort to spell out what such freedom means for Christians in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

This book has as its principle premise the conviction that if we are to construct a North American liberation theology we must begin listening to and understanding Latin American theology not so much as a model to be slavishly followed but as a challenge to our own cultural, political, and even religious assumptions. The focus thus is not so much on the theoretical meaning of Christian freedom but on its practice, and more exactly its praxis, that is to say the dialectic between theory and practice.

After focusing on the creation and development of liberating theological methods and sources and, above all, the revitalization and renewal of structures that will contribute to the development of a liberated and liberating church, Fr. Hennelly ends with an analysis of the most recent and the most important vatican document on liberation theology, The Instruction of Christian Freedom and Liberation, which he sees as an acknowledgement by the universal church that the theme of liberation is central to the meaning of Christian theology.

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Prologue: The Precious Tincture of Rage	p. 1
The Legacy of john Courtney Murray	p. 7
Latin America's Theology of Freedom	p. 19
Theology for a World Church	p. 21
Origins of a Liberating Theology	p. 23
Stages of Liberating Theology	p. 26
From the People or the Intellectuals?	p. 28
Either Content or Method?	p. 30
Glimpses of the Future	p. 33
The Method for Liberating Theology	p. 37
Method in Gutierrez and Segundo	p. 38
The Approach of Jon Sobrino	p. 41
Developments in North America	p. 46
Concluding Observations	p. 49
Sources for a Theology of Freedom	p. 53
Praxis and the Sources	p. 54
Two Different Theologies?	p. 56
Liberation and the Crisis of Theology	p. 61
Concluding Remarks	p. 64
Paulo Freire as Liberation Theologian	p. 67
Freire's Background	p. 68
Out of the Culture of Silence	p. 69
The Educator as Theologian	p. 71
The Impact on Society and Politics	p. 77
Freire's Liberating Theology	p. 79
Practice of Liberation in the Grassroots Church	p. 81
Background of the Communities	p. 82
Description of the BECs	p. 83
Concluding Data on the Communities	p. 86
BECs and the U.S. Experience	p. 89
Human Rights as Bulwark of Freedom	p. 95
Human Rights in Latin America	p. 96
Human Rights and Pastoral Practice	p. 97
Human Rights in the Church	p. 99
The Vatican and Liberation Theology	p. 105
Introduction to the Document	p. 106
Commentary on the Instruction	p. 107
New Contributions to Catholic Social Thought	p. 111
Concluding Remarks	p. 117
Epilogue: Structures of Sin and Grace	p. 119
Solidarity and Liberation	p. 120
New Developments in Letter	p. 123
A New Spirituality	p. 126
Final Evaluation and Conclusions	p. 129
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith: Instruction on Christian Freedom and Liberation	p. 133
Notes	p. 175
Index	p. 197
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