ht or acknowledged or both, and distilled by various religious writers into what has been termed liberation theology. Hellwig's description of the term encompasses its general features as it has emerged from the post Vatican II period.
Liberation theology is an emerging school of theologians,
predominantly but not exclusively Roman Catholic and Latin
American. The main issue is the definition of salvation in
terms of recognizable human experience not excluding the
social, economic, cultural, political dimension. Liberation
theology emerges from Christian experience of Third World
struggles in our generation with the understanding that
history is one, not divisible into secular and salvation
history. Liberation theology is cautiously and critically
related to Marxist economic analysis. It is partially based
on theology of hope and political theology and claims to go
further in its analysis than these European theologies
To be sure, both Segundo and Gutierrez acknowled
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