The Liberation Theology Podcast

What is the new human being? What will the new economy and new society look like? David uses the war on terror to illustrate the "old human being" and compares Ignacio Ellacuría's vision of the new human being with Che Guevara's. Texts: Mysterium liberationis https://www.orbisbooks.com/mysterium-liberationis.html "Socialism and Man in Cuba" by Ernesto "Che" Guevara https://www.marxists.org/archive...

Ignacio Ellacuría, SJ, contends that, in liberation praxis, prophecy is the method, utopia is the horizon, and the reign of God is the revelation. David interviews Patrick Saint-Jean, SJ, about his new book "The Spiritual Work of Racial Justice." Text: Mysterium liberationis https://www.orbisbooks.com/mysterium-liberationis.html Saint-Jean's book: The Spiritual Work of Racial Justice https://www.a...

Juan Luis Segundo, SJ, argues that the word "liberation" captures the essential meaning of the biblical terms for "salvation" and "redemption." Biblical "freedom" is the ability to be artisans of a new humanity. Text: Mysterium liberationis https://www.orbisbooks.com/mysterium-liberationis.html Books mentioned: Our Idea of God https://www.amazon.com/Theology-Artisans-New-Humanity-Idea/dp/161097462...

Text: "Mysterium liberationis" https://www.orbisbooks.com/mysterium-liberationis.html Magnificast episode on Margaret Randall:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nicaragua-and-cuba-w-margaret-randall/id1214644619?i=1000521683859 Music: "Los molinos" by Adam Drake and Tom Jenkins "Azure Sky" by Terry Devine-King and Adam Drake Obtained via subscription to Audio Network

Text: "Mysterium liberationis" https://www.orbisbooks.com/mysterium-liberationis.html Music: "Los molinos" by Adam Drake and Tom Jenkins "Azure Sky" by Terry Devine-King and Adam Drake Obtained via subscription to Audio Network

Text: "Mysterium liberationis" https://www.orbisbooks.com/mysterium-liberationis.html Music: "Los molinos" by Adam Drake and Tom Jenkins "Azure Sky" by Terry Devine-King and Adam Drake Obtained via subscription to Audio Network

The oppressed of Latin America read the Bible not as “past history alone but as a story that is still happening today.” They see biblical history as the process of the formation of a free and united people. Jesus did not primary come to save individual people from their individual sins but to save the people from their social sin. Two chapters from Ernesto Cardenal's "The Gospel in Solentiname" ex...

Some of Marcus Mescher's work: The Ethics of Encounter , book: https://www.orbisbooks.com/the-ethics-of-encounter.html "5 lessons Pope Francis has taught us with his actions more than his words", article: https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2020/03/12/5-lessons-pope-francis-has-taught-his-actions-more-his-words Music: "Los molinos" by Adam Drake and Tom Jenkins "Azure Sky" by Terry Devine-King a...

Some of Marcus Mescher's work: The Ethics of Encounter , book: https://www.orbisbooks.com/the-ethics-of-encounter.html "5 lessons Pope Francis has taught us with his actions more than his words", article: https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2020/03/12/5-lessons-pope-francis-has-taught-his-actions-more-his-words Music: "Los molinos" by Adam Drake and Tom Jenkins "Azure Sky" by Terry Devine-King a...

Dean Dettloff's work: "The Catholic Case for Communism": https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2019/07/23/catholic-case-communism "Civil Disobedience": https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/civil-disobedience Music: "Los molinos" by Adam Drake and Tom Jenkins "Azure Sky" by Terry Devine-King and Adam Drake Obtained via subscription to Audio Network

Clodovis Boff discusses the theory, forms, and method of liberation theology, and David relates the three forms--popular, pastoral, and professional--to Ernesto Cardenal's base community at Solentiname, Ismael Moreno's prophetic pastoral work in Honduras, and Juan Luis Segundo's paradigm shift in academic theology. 

Roberto Oliveros distinguishes four phrases in the development of liberation theology: gestation, genesis, growth, and consolidation. David shares three stories from Honduras about theater, water, and mining, each related to the struggle for liberation. Music "Los molinos" by Adam Drake and Tom Jenkins "Azure Sky" by Terry Devine-King and Adam Drake Obtained via subscription to Audio Network

Mysterium liberationis  edited by Ignacio Ellacuría, SJ, and Jon Sobrino, SJ, is the book that the podcast explores. Its first chapter by Roberto Oliveros, SJ, looks at the history of liberation theology in the light of Vatican II and the Latin American experience of poverty. David shares his first encounter with liberation theology in Guatemala. Music "Los molinos" by Adam Drake and Tom Jenkins "...