Opting for the margins in a postmodern world / Joerg Rieger -- Subalternity and advocacy as Kairos for theology / Mark Lewis Taylor -- On (re)centering the margins / David N. Field -- Liberation theology in the twenty-first century / Kwok Pui-lan -- The situation and tasks of liberation theology today / Gustavo Gutiérrez -- Option for the poor and the Exclusion of women / Elina Vuola -- More than ever / Dwight N. Hopkins -- Knowing the God of the poor / Roberto S. Goizueta -- The work of love / M. Gail Hamner -- Theology and the power of the margins in a postmodern world / Joerg Rieger
Summary
The authors of this volume seek to revive the preferential option for the poor for the postmodern world, showing how options for the margins can engage postmodernity in new ways and break new ground in religious, theological and ethical, as well as social, political and economic thinking