RAMANAM
In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.
Countrymen,
ORBIS NON SUFFICIT
SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT
Mr. Jean-Bertrand Aristide received an offer he could not refuse. With his removal from Haiti, the last nail is in the coffin of Jesuit Liberation Theology (and here). Liberation Theology (and here) was a political ideology and movement, bereft of connection with theology or religion, developed by Jesuits and characterized by socialist rant. The World Council of Churches, the National Council of Churches in the USA and the Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, at which I graduated in 1969, as it was on the cusp of appointing a so-called professor of Liberation Theology (and here), participated in the socialist agenda that went by the name of Liberation Theology.
Update 1: Archbishop Oscar Romero was NOT a so-called Liberation Theologian.
Update 2: The Pope, Liberation Theology, Palestine and Castro… by Lionel Chetwynd. See also.
Update 3: Sabeel: Liberation Theology, Anglican Edition, spouts in Gaza and the West Bank. Two thoughts: (1) “I seen me an Arab, I seen me a Gaza and I seen me a West Bank, but I ain’t never seen me a Palestinian or a Palestine.” and (2) “I ain’t never seen me no liberation theology that was Christian.”
Update 4: A statement regarding equating Christianity with Communism:
Several New Testament parables are used, since decades, to equate Christianity with Communism. Virtually the entire “mainline denomination” leadership, to include now Roman Catholics, concurs at least in principle with that equation. Thus the pews empty out, which, remarkably, convinces that leadership to embrace leftist manners and language more tightly: cut loose by God, let’s be saved by politics.
Christianity brightly distinguishes the realm of civil authority and law from the realm of religious authority, which transcends civil authority and law and has no law of its own. Each realm has its utility, powers and necessity (“Give unto Caesar….”) and neither has authority to control or dominate the other.
The relationship between religion and science is the same. They are about different matters entirely, without intersection, confirmation or conflict. Like civil authority and religious authority, however, they are parallel, indomitable vectors of human experience and history.
Update 5: Back To The Future: Liberation Theology Rehabilitated
Update 6: What Really Happened At Synod 2015?
Update 8: Pope Francis Says Liberation Theology Was Good For Latin America
Update 9: Back to the Future: Liberation Theology Rehabilitated
AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA