Liberation theology is a movement that infers the scripture through the predicament of the poor and their suffering. The element of liberation theology is that true followers of Jesus must work toward bringing change in the world and that mainly being political and social changes and in time aligning themselves with the working class. The main point of liberation theology was the fact of Jesus, who was poor and focused on the poor and defending the rights of the poor was the central aspect. Liberation theology began in Latin America in the 1960s and its rise was seen as a response to the mistreatment and the widespread poverty in society and especially the large segments of the Latin American culture.
The role of liberation theology has also moved beyond the individual suffering in Central and South America.
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Even places like the United States have some forms of liberation theology such as black liberation theology or feminist liberation. Theologians firmly put forward the indication of Jesus Christ as the existent liberator and they encouraged many to read the bible to see that Christ empowered and encouraged believers …show more content…
Luz Beatriz Arellano is quoted in the book as saying “We were discovering God as the God of life, closer to us, as one who journeys with us through history, one who is immensely concerned for the poor and for the least, for those who have been left unattended, and it gave us a deep hope and a deep sense of having found something new.” (Page 79). The focus being not the nonbeliever struggling for faith but the nonperson struggling for life itself and its downward spiral. With liberation theology the goal is not to create a new situation of reversing the oppression to create a new community but to create one on the model of God preached by