Theology of Liberation and Choice for the Poor. Gustavo Gutiérrez and the Critique of Established Forms of Religious Power
by Mariarosaria Colucciello and Antonio Scocozza
pp. 86-101 Issue 4 (2,2) – July-December 2015 ISSN (online): 2539/2239 ISSN (print): 2389-8232 DOI: 10.17450/150206
Abstract
The purpose of this article is to illustrate the stages that Gustavo Gutiérrez Merino, the ‘father of liberation theology’, traced to innovate Latin-American and world theology from the early seventies to the present. The option for poor people became the load-bearing axis of his message that, from the book Teología de la liberación. Perspectivas, continues to be the setting of his thought, which is an open criticism to stabilized forms of religious power.