Biography
Gustavo Gutiérrez, a Peruvian theologian, founded Liberation Theology, doing theology from the perspective of the poor and calling the Church to a preferential option for the poor.
Key Ideas
- Preferential option for the poor.
- Structural sin and praxis.
- Jesus as liberator; the Kingdom now.
Topics Appearing In
Exam Importance
Central to Church in the Modern World and to the liberationist reading of Jesus.
Works to explore
Use these titles to locate the scholar's argument in context. Edition-specific commercial recommendations are kept on the component reading lists.
- Gutiérrez — A Theology of Liberation (by the scholar)