Founded in 1965, the ELN takes its inspiration from the Cuban revolution and liberation theology.
Liberation theology combined Christian theology with political activism on issues like human rights and social justice.
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During this time, the military junta controlled Argentina and many priests, including Jesuits, supported the liberation theology movement.
He has also focused on the welfare of the poor as espoused by the liberation theology popular in Latin America.
Then again, entering fully into liberation theology would have been a bridge too far, outside of the good graces of the Church entirely.
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These communities, inspired in part by the Jesuits and Liberation Theology, embodied a self-reliant form of development, divorced from the paternalism of the past.
She moved to North Carolina in 1992 to pursue a Masters of Theological Studies at Duke University, where she studied feminist and liberation theology.
This belief conflicted with the postmodern professoriat that prefers cutting rap records to teaching--or, if forced to teach, teaches liberation theology over the American Revolution.
He also says all the focus on a few unremarkable moments is part of an unfair portrait painted by those unfamiliar with the tone of "liberation theology" ministries.
In more recent years, both Gustavo Gutierrez in Peru, one of the founders of liberation theology, and Leonardo Boff, the outspoken Franciscan priest from Brazil have fallen foul of Rome.
He was a church leader by the time Latin American Catholicism became divided in the 1960s and 1970s between those who adhered to the church hierarchy, and followers attracted by a movement called Liberation Theology.
While he has frequently criticized the large gap between rich and poor in Latin America, he never followed many of his fellow Jesuits in pursuing Liberation Theology in the 1960s and 1970s, a movement that sought to lift the living standards for the region's poor.
Father Gutierrez, whose 1971 book A Theology of Liberation, helped launch the movement, was also criticised by Pope John Paul II and by the Catholic hierarchy in his own country.
The Brazilian was studying theology in Rome when the liberation movement was gaining momentum in his own country and the wider region.
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