436 Liberation Theology

Published: Dec. 10, 2021, 3:23 a.m.

b'This week we talk about Liberation Theology in Latin America and how it was crushed by the Vatican.\\n\\n\\n\\n \\tThe feedback form is at htotw.com/contact\\n \\tLeave us voice message at htotw.com/speakpipe\\n \\tSupport the show at htotw.com/donate\\n \\tSubscribe at htotw.com/subscribe\\n \\tJoin our Discord server at htotw.com/discord\\n\\nAnnouncements\\n\\n \\tSale at the store\\n\\n \\tDATES:\\xa010th-17th December\\n \\tDEAL: $14 T-Shirts and everything else up to 30% off;\\n\\n\\n \\tBug fixes\\n\\n \\tSilence truncation - longer pauses were completely removed, mostly only an issue on solo episodes, now it keeps those pauses at 0.75 seconds\\n \\tNewsletter\\n\\n \\tCreated new newsletter last year and updated the subscribe page, but didn\\u2019t set up the newsletter.\\n \\tNow the new newsletter is working and I\\u2019ve migrated subscriptions from the old newsletter to the new newsletter.\\n \\tUnsubscribe link has been broken in the new newsletter, I found the issue was me being too aggressive in turning off tracking. It will now track unsubscribes, but will continue to NOT track opens, clicks, or anything else.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nLiberation Theology\\n\\n \\tCatholic Church as a tool of the Spanish Empire\\n \\tRevolution, independence, and the status quo\\n \\tEarly 20th Century Catholic Action Movement\\n\\n \\tHolguin of Arequipa and Farf\\xe1n of Cusco\\n \\tStarted separating the church from state\\n \\tStarted political advocacy for the poor\\n \\tBase Ecumenical Communities\\n\\n\\n \\tGustavo Guti\\xe9rrez\\n\\n \\tPartial Qetchua ancestry\\n \\tBecame a priest in 1959\\n \\tStudied in Europe\\n\\n\\n \\tLatin American Episcopal Counsel\\n\\n \\tPushed for progressive reforms in Vatican II (1962 - 1965)\\n \\t1968 Medellin, Colombia meeting\\n\\n \\tGoal was to support BEC\\n \\tFirst introduction of Liberation Theology\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n \\tGustavo Gutierrez published \\u201cA Theology of Liberation\\u201d in 1971\\n \\tLiberation Theology\\n\\n \\tFirst level - Poor liberate themselves from economic exploitation\\n \\tSecond Level - Liberation from fatalism and recognition of free will\\n \\tThird level - Communion with God.\\n \\tRevolution is an option\\n\\n\\n \\tSandinista Nicaragua - 1978 - 1990\\n \\tOpposition\\n\\n \\tJohn Paul II\\n \\tJoseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI\\n \\tChurch went more spiritual and argued Liberation Theology was too material\\n \\tReconciliation Theology argued that by reconciling with God and others class struggle and revolution could be avoided.\\n \\tWith the fall of communism and changes to the global economy it couldn\\u2019t keep up.\\n \\tBy the mid 1990s the movement was dead.\\n\\n\\n \\tConclusion\\n\\nSources\\n\\n \\tBrown University\\n \\tBritannica\\n \\tWikipedia - Latin American Liberation Theology\\n\\nFeedback\\n\\n \\tRobSpence67\\n\\nThis episode is brought to you by:\\n\\n \\tHenry K\\n \\tDanielle\\n \\tPat Acks from the Humanists of Idaho\\n \\tSoJo\\n \\tBig Easy Blasphemy\\n \\tDarryl G\\n \\tArthur K\\n \\tSamuel C\\n \\tBeatriz A\\n \\tErik from Wyoming\\n \\tLevi C\\n \\tRichard G\\n \\tBal\\xe1zs\\n \\tSteve F\\n \\tBrad R\\n\\nAnd by our $1 patrons and those who want no reward.\\n\\n\\n\\nContact information, show notes, and links to Social Media and the like can be found at https://htotw.com\\n\\nTheme music is provided by Sturdy Fred.\\n\\n\\n\\nFull shownotes can always be found at https://htotw.com/436\\nDownload episode'