respectfulofwomen:Happy birthday, Gustavo Gutierrez! (June 8, 1928)A Peruvian Catholic priest of the
respectfulofwomen:Happy birthday, Gustavo Gutierrez! (June 8, 1928)A Peruvian Catholic priest of the Dominican Order, Gustavo Gutierrez had an unusual education for a clergyman, studying non-religious figures such as Marx, Freud, and Darwin, who would come to influence his theology. Gutierrez is best known as one of the leading theologians of liberation theology, which emphasizes a preferential option for the poor and social justice, and which arose out of the extreme poverty and colonial oppression of Gutierrez’s native Latin America. While his work has been influential, especially in Latin America, Gutierrez has been criticized and condemned by more traditional clergy. -- source link