Theologies of Liberation in the US

Catalog description

This course will introduce students to various US theologies of liberation—Black, feminist, womanist, mujerista, Latino/a, American indigenous, Asian, Asian feminist, and queer theologies—that have developed over the course of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries as theoretical and practical responses to the problem of human suffering. The course will explore key aspects of how liberation theologians have grounded their advocacy of sociopolitical transformation in their respective understandings of God's identity and God's plan for humankind and the world. Distinctive features of liberationist theological approaches to doctrine and dominant theological themes will be explored