• elegant european theology education → did not fit situation of his people in peru
• cannot talk about love or hope without participating in struggle for social change
• marxist analysis of economic roots of injustice
• worst violence comes from governments, and in some cases violence is necessary to overthrow “institutionalized violence”

interprets salvation as liberation of poor and oppressed

salvation is liberation from sin- sin demands radical liberation

creation and salvation on continuum

unmask misuse of gospel

sees god as liberator in Exodus, jesus died insurrectionist (seen in militant suffering servant image of jesus christ)

james- faiths without works is dead

GOSPEL MESSAGE: good news for poor and oppressed, bible was written with preferential addressing to

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