Liberation Thought: links to web pages, etc. on key concepts
Praxis:
Dependency Theory:
Church Documents on Salvation and the Church (and/or Roman Catholic
Church)
- Lumen Gentium, §16 (Dogmatic
Constitution of the Church from Vatican II)
-
Gaudium et Spes (part 1; link to part 2). This is the Pastoral
Constitution on the Church in the Modern World from Vatican II. See § 21:
"The Attitude of the Church Towards Atheism" (see also the last ¶ of §20);
§43, end of 1st ¶, on salvation and activity in the world; and Part II, §58:
"Relations Between Culture and the Good News of Christ."
-
Dominus Iesus: Document of the Propagation of the Faith written by
then Cardinal Ratzinger and approved by Pope John Paul II. This was
promulgated in 2000, and directly addresses the question of the relation of
Christianity and Catholicism to other churches and other religions. Many
critics see this as a betrayal of the principles enunciated in Vatican II
documents, although the document represents itself as being fully in accord
with the documents of Vatican II. See especially §§1-7, §12, and the
infamously troubling statements in §17 & §22.
- An article on the "effect" of Dominus Iesus that appeared in
America magazine:
"The Impact of Dominus Iesus on Ecumenism" by Francis A. Sullivan.
Preferential Option for the Poor:
Paulo Freire
- Instituto Paulo Freire (In
English...or Spanish...or Portuguese, etc.)
-
Freire Issues site, from National Louis University. Includes a glossary.
-
Definition of
"latifundia" (see p. 64) that goes back to its ancient meaning as
a "spacious farm or estate." In other words, the latifundia
(singular, latifundium) were large land-holdings of the wealthy,
usually inherited from colonial times as indigenous people were deprived of
their communally-controlled or used land (ownership of land was often a
foreign concept to the indigenous peoples) by powerful European colonists,
governors and military officials.
-
Freire biography (pdf
file).
Karl Marx
- http://www.marxists.org (not only
texts of Marx, but lots of supporting materials, including many
philosophical texts not written by Marxists, but addressing critical social
issues from a variety of perspectives.
Enrique Dussel
