Preferred term
LIBERATION THEOLOGY
Broader concept
Scope note
- The belief, in contemporary Christian theology, that poverty and oppression in the Third World result from political and economic structures imposed primarily from the outside by foreign governments or transnational corporations and that it is the responsibility of the church to help liberate these societies
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URI
http://metadata.un.org/thesaurus/1003706