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The Contributions Of Latino Theology

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Latino theology also known as the United States Hispanic theology. Latino theology is a Christian religion book which shows how the Hispanic men and women lived in the United States as they practice the footsteps of Jesus Christ who revealed God with other outshining men and women of their particular social, cultural and historical circumstances. They have enriched the theology discipline with the impact in biblical scholarship, pastoral theology, ethics in theology and positive theology. Some of the enrichments include involving questions in religious experience and increase theologies working in universities. Latino theology is a book which was very interesting with how it influenced the new theology into the system. I got very happy about …show more content…

Latino theology which supports social justice has enabled me to understand the importance of fighting for human rights. This moral issue is fighting against slavery, poverty, neocolonialism and war. This is being done due to the contribution of the Latino theology through the biblical studies, practical theology and theological and social ethics. It has also brought in the spirituality, which is used in other professions like the sociology, nursing, psychology and healthcare. The theology proved to be important in dealing with situations like the stress, longevity, chronic diseases well-being and maintaining …show more content…

In the historical times there was oppression like racial discrimination, ethnicity, social class, language and status of immigration, were the problems the Latinos passed through. They formed liberation theology which gained popularity between the Latino Americans and the then United States mainly from the effort of the Peruvian priest Gustavo Gutierrez. Owing to Christian love and empathy for the anguish experienced by the poor encouraged this specific theological sermon and approach for liberation from oppressive configurations surrounded by superseding cultures, they did this by disparaging the cruelty of women by stressing revolution of worldwide configurations of discrimination while ignoring the daily discrimination of women in their homes and the larger society. Hispanics are the immigrants in the United States who are viewed as a minority in the country. They are viewed as poor and in lower social class. They faced numbers of oppression from American’s due to the color of their skin hence they suffer from racial discrimination. This has made them revolutionized to form liberation theology. Having being pushed by this suffering, Gustavo Gutiérrez of Peru, Leonardo Boff of Brazil, Juan Luis Segundo of Uruguay and Jon Sobrino of Spain, came together in the 1950s and 1960s to formulate how they would fight for social discrimination especially the

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