The Power of the Poor in History: Selected Writings [Paperback]

Gustavo Gutierrez (Author), Robert R. Barr (Translator)

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Publication Date: May 1983

"This is a people's theology, not a textbook theology ... addressed not to professional theologians but to lay people.... This is not a theology created by the intelligentsia, the affluent, the powerful, those on top; it is a theology from the bottom, from the underside, created by the victims, the poor, the oppressed. It is not a theology spun out in a series of principles or axioms of timeless truth that are then applied to the contemporary scene, but a theology springing up out of poverty, the oppression, the heartrending conditions under which the great majority of Latin Americans live." --- Robert McAfee Brown, from the Preface

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Text: English, Spanish (translation)

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Orbis Books (May 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0883443880
• ISBN-13: 978-0883443880
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,247,074 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars learn the basics of liberation theology, January 15, 2011

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This review is from: The Power of the Poor in History: Selected Writings (Paperback)

240 pages, including footnotes, references, and index.
Topics include:
The Poor Proclaim the Gospel,
The World or the Ivory Tower?
Injustice is not an Accident
The Right to Exist and Think
Transformin History with a Liberating Love
and many more.
Although written in the context of the slums of Lima, Peru, the concepts are universal. Not to be confused with Marxist theories of liberation.