This rough analogy of the relationship between "liberation theology" and "theology" came to me tonight at church:
You have a collection of 100 CDs. You only play one, and of that one, you only listen to three tracks, and of those three tracks, you only listen to the middle three minutes of each one. You then proclaim yourself an expert on music, proclaim that music never really existed before this CD came out, and insist there really is no other kind of music besides what is on that album, even though you have so many other CDs.
Really, guys, not everything is about poor people.
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Um, what about spiritual poverty?
Liberation theology is generally a very unspiritual theology.
It's not totally worthless, but the problem is that many of its proponents have tried to replace the entirety of Christian theology with it when in fact liberation theology just constitutes an area of social ethics.
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