ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that segment of the Church which has made a clear and uncompromising commitment to the indigent majority in Central America. For religious workers, siding with the poor and oppressed in Central America has involved the acceptance of conflict as a way of life, and the adoption of a secular posture with revolutionary overtones. All revolutionaries must accept the importance of solidarity with a Church that nurtures the pursuit of liberation. In many ways the impetus toward conversion and purification of the Central American Church has come from the forces outside the clergy. The unity of the Church in and around the historical movement forward of the poor found expression in the founding of Coordinadora National de la Iglesia Popular, National Coordinating Committee of the People's Church. The new theological thinking occurring in Latin America comes more from the Christian groups committed to the liberation of their people than from the traditional centers for the teaching of theology.
