“Theology as critical reflection thus fulfills a liberating function for man and the Christian community, preserving them from fetishism and idolatry, as well as from a pernicious and belittling narcissism.”

Source: A Theology of Liberation (1971), p. 12

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Peruvian theologian 1928

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