Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; 1. In search of the poor in liberation theology; 2. Constructing and deconstructing idols; 3. The other as icon or idol; 4. Clodovis Boff: keeping the dialectical tension; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Liberation theology has, since its beginnings over forty years ago, placed the poor at the heart of theology and revealed the ideologies underlying both society and church. Meanwhile, over this period, the progressive church appears to have stagnated and the poor of Latin America have turned increasingly to neo-Pentecostalism. ''The Poor in Liberation Theology'' questions whether the effect of liberation theology is to provide a pathway to God or really to construct idols out of the poor. Combining the conceptual language of the philosophers Jean-Luc Marion and Emmanuel Levinas with the metho
