ABSTRACT
Liber ation Theo log y Liberation theology is a form of religious radicalism that seeks to relate the message of the Bible to the problems of poverty and oppression in the contemporary world. It developed in Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s, but exercised infl uence in many other countries, especially those where Catholicism was strong. Its infl uence has waned since the end of the Cold War and the apparent economic failure of the socialist models that it endorsed, but some of its central methods and conclusions have been widely accepted, especially by the Religious Left.
