This is a great take but just to nitpick, liberation theology I think is less a general phrase than a specific branch of Catholic theology mostly out of Latin America, and doesn't so much apply to other religious comrades.
Yeah, but it’s still a good rhetorical term for leftist theology
Did you ask the people who actually subscribe to liberation theology, or the people who are religious leftists but are not associated with liberation theology?
When something is a term for something specific, it is usually not a good idea to just start applying the same term to other tangentially related stuff, especially when it is not a broader tendency but just something people in obscure forums do. I've noticed it a lot, people here and other leftist forums often use a weird lingo and use names of groups and tendencies in different ways than everyone else and it's very weird sometimes.
I've definitely seen theologies outside of South America be referred to as "a type of liberation theology".
I'm not an expert, but I imagine liberation theology or "theologies of liberation" are a broad category of theologies mostly concerned with liberation.
In the same way that Marxism-Leninism can be applied to circumstances and contexts outside of Czarist Russia.
I’ve definitely seen theologies outside of South America be referred to as “a type of liberation theology”.
Over here, yes, because it's one of these words that people apply to everything. There are some groups outside South America which call themselves liberation theology but it's not a lot. If you're a christian and also a socialist, that doesn't mean you're doing liberation theology, it mostly just means you're a christian and also a socialist.
I’m not an expert, but I imagine liberation theology or “theologies of liberation” are a broad category of theologies mostly concerned with liberation.
Not really, there's christian socialism which is quite old and has been influential in some places, and there is islamic socialism, but liberation theology is usually just a specific thing influential mostly in south America, which synthesizes Catholic doctrine with socialist/marxist elements.
yeah...but I don't see why that wouldn't or couldn't influence people from other imperialized nations and be applied to their country culture and circumstance?
and I really don't know what to call those except theologies of liberation.
yeah…but I don’t see why that wouldn’t or couldn’t influence people from other imperialized nations and be applied to their country culture and circumstance?
It can? Maybe? Maybe not? Like, that's not something people will decide here and it's not necessary either, it's just something that happens.
and I really don’t know what to call those except theologies of liberation.
Just call them whatever they are. Or whatever they call themselves.
This is a great take but just to nitpick, liberation theology I think is less a general phrase than a specific branch of Catholic theology mostly out of Latin America, and doesn't so much apply to other religious comrades.
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Did you ask the people who actually subscribe to liberation theology, or the people who are religious leftists but are not associated with liberation theology?
When something is a term for something specific, it is usually not a good idea to just start applying the same term to other tangentially related stuff, especially when it is not a broader tendency but just something people in obscure forums do. I've noticed it a lot, people here and other leftist forums often use a weird lingo and use names of groups and tendencies in different ways than everyone else and it's very weird sometimes.
I've definitely seen theologies outside of South America be referred to as "a type of liberation theology".
I'm not an expert, but I imagine liberation theology or "theologies of liberation" are a broad category of theologies mostly concerned with liberation.
In the same way that Marxism-Leninism can be applied to circumstances and contexts outside of Czarist Russia.
Over here, yes, because it's one of these words that people apply to everything. There are some groups outside South America which call themselves liberation theology but it's not a lot. If you're a christian and also a socialist, that doesn't mean you're doing liberation theology, it mostly just means you're a christian and also a socialist.
Not really, there's christian socialism which is quite old and has been influential in some places, and there is islamic socialism, but liberation theology is usually just a specific thing influential mostly in south America, which synthesizes Catholic doctrine with socialist/marxist elements.
yeah...but I don't see why that wouldn't or couldn't influence people from other imperialized nations and be applied to their country culture and circumstance?
and I really don't know what to call those except theologies of liberation.
It can? Maybe? Maybe not? Like, that's not something people will decide here and it's not necessary either, it's just something that happens.
Just call them whatever they are. Or whatever they call themselves.
I'm not saying people here will decide, I am just saying I have heard the term liberation theology used outside of a south/latin american context.
I do like that quite a bit.