ABSTRACT
Theodor Adorno once wrote that ‘perspectives must be fashioned that displace and estrange the world, reveal it to be, with its rifts and crevices, as indigent and distorted as it will appear one day in the messianic light’.1 I flatter myself by hoping that the argument of this work may contribute, in the smallest way, to fashioning such perspectives. My reconstruction of liberation theology around the notion of a historical project enables it to uncover and exploit the rifts and crevices of a world that too often denies the majority their full humanity, a world where full redemption is outside our merely human grasp. However, while the messianic light is not ours to shine, we can still pursue the limited redemptions that historical projects provide. This book outlines one way to do so.2
