On The Latin American Liberation Theology And Marxist Philosophy

Liberation Theology comes out from Catholicism inside since 1960s. It has an ultimate goal the "liberation" of the poor and "option for the poor". Liberation Theology explain the biblical again and use some standpoint of Marxism for reference, especially on discuss about the point "liberation" and "opt of value". There are four parts in thesis. Part 1, it will have an overview of the history of Liberation Theology and liberation theologians. Introduce the main themes in liberation theology. Part 2, this part discussed the subject of liberation and way to realize the liberation goal, compared "liberation" with "development>of human". Part 3, compared "opt of value" in liberation theology with socialist view of value, point out the limitation of the liberation opts. Part 4, two questions are put forward. First one, contradictory is exist between theory with practice. Second one is concerning the suitability of Marxism.