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Theology Of Liberation Essay

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Throughout the text, “Theology of Liberation”, one of Gutiérrez’s significant focal points was that your actions are what determine if you are a true Christian. He stressed that it is not enough to just know and understand the Word, one must also practice what is preached by the Bible. What is preached is that love and charity are above all and is what God desires for mankind to strive to accomplish. To be loving and charitable leads one close to God, however hatred and evilness deters one from God because God is not present where there is no love. When negativity and evilness are, violence and chaos brews which is contrary to the peace God brings with His Being. In order to truly be able to be considered a person of faith, one’s actions and …show more content…

Gutiérrez states that liberation is freedom “from all that limits or keeps human beings from self fulfillment..from all impediments to the exercise of freedom”. Liberation is not only just worldly but it also has a theological aspect to it. Liberation from sin allows one to reach complete freedom. Sin divides us from each other because it leads to hatred and evil. When we are away from each other it is more difficult to portray charitability and love unto thy neighbor. Where sin is present, God is not present and in order to be fully liberated we must have God by our side. Striving to deter and absolve ourselves from sin leads humanity into a tighter knit community and also in a tighter relationship to God. This allows for harmony and peace to resonate in the world and for us to ultimately be liberated to love each other and be freed from the temptations of evil and sin through the love of …show more content…

. . What was a permanent copresence of both elements [body and nonbody] in each stage of the human being, with Descartes came a radical separation between reason/subject and body.” Quijano highlights that in Christianity, Christians have the tendency to separate the soul and body. The soul and what is intrinsic is what matters more than the body which is extrinsic. However, while inside we must be kind and loving we must be able to replicate this charity extrinsically with the body we have been bestowed with by God. What we do in this body matters just as much as how we feed our soul because these two are

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