Galmat wrote:What are your general thoughts on Liberation Theology? How does it compare to Fundamentalism or Liberal Theology and are any of these beneficial or negative to the Christian faith and why?
Note: I am not a Fundamentalist, but one of the denominations I grew up in is.
From an American Fundamentalist perspective, Liberation Theology is seen as the further Marxification of Liberal Christianity (which they see as already heretical in that Liberal Christianity denies one or more tenets that Jesus said one must believe on Him to have eternal life). With Liberation theology, the orthopraxy (correct conduct) of the politics of envy informs and overrules orthodoxy (right belief and thinking). Instead of the problem of humanity being sin wrought by the person looking back in the mirror (our sinful selves), the problem becomes "them" (those oppressors out there). Instead of the solution being the preaching of the gospel (incarnation, death, burial, resurrection, and 2nd advent), repenting of one's sins, and making the world a better place and the advance of God's kingdom by joining the communion of Christ as a disciple to forsake the world, take up our cross, and follow in his steps); the solution is the material redistribution of goods and through political action (among other things).
