Gustavo Gutiérrez
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Oct 27, 2026
Claudia de la CruzGUEST
And then my pastor at that moment started giving me books.
Claudia de la CruzGUEST
And one of the first books he gave me was precisely Gustavo Gutiérrez, Theology of the Oppressed.
Claudia de la CruzGUEST
Then I started reading about El del Cámara.
Claudia de la CruzGUEST
Then I started looking more into Oscar Romero.
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Claudia de la CruzGUEST
It was still very discriminatory against the Global South.
Claudia de la CruzGUEST
But there were people in those structures that took it upon themselves to change those realities, specifically in their local communities or in their nation states.
Claudia de la CruzGUEST
And this is where Gustavo Gutiérrez, El del Cámara, even within the Cuban Revolution, You had folks like Sergio Arce, Raul Suarez, and many others who were like, okay, we're living in this context of Cuban revolution.
Claudia de la CruzGUEST
So we are already on the side of the poor.
Mark DurieGUEST
So liberation theology was developed in Latin America in the 1970s.
Mark DurieGUEST
Gustavo Gutierrez published a book, The Theology of Liberation, and it was a shift in understanding the problem with human beings.
Mark DurieGUEST
The Bible's teaching about the problem with humanity is sin.
Mark DurieGUEST
That is, we tend to do what is wrong against God and against others.
Chris PintoGUEST
So the whole thing.
Chris PintoGUEST
And they taught it to, um, Gustavo Gutierrez, who is considered the father of liberation theology.
Brannon HowseHOST
Who by the way-
Chris PintoGUEST
Gustavo
Chris PintoGUEST
But according to Malachi Martin, the whole thing was designed by the Jesuit order.
Chris PintoGUEST
So the whole thing, and they taught it to, um, Gustavo Gutierrez, who is considered the father of liberation theology.
Brannon HowseHOST
Who by the way, who by the way is quoted positively by Tim Keller in his book, Generous Justice.
Brannon HowseHOST
And Tim Keller, of course, went on...
A.R.HOST
Liberation theology in Latin America took a similar approach from a different direction.
A.R.HOST
Beginning in the nineteen sixties, theologians like Gustavo Gutierrez in Peru developed an interpretation of the gospels that placed the liberation of the poor at the center of Christian mission.
A.R.HOST
This was theologically radical.
A.R.HOST
It insisted that Jesus' concern for the poor was not just a personal virtue but a political imperative, and that structural injustice was itself a sin.
Darrell Hamilton IIGUEST
And he's trying to figure out how is it that the Christian faith is gonna speak to this movement and speak to this moment, uh, because of, it wasn't evangelicalism then, but there's a fundamentalism that's taken hold of the Christian Church that is not being responsive to the needs of Black people and poor people in the United States.
Darrell Hamilton IIGUEST
And so he's asking those questions similarly to a Gustavo Gutierrez who's asking those questions in South America, right? How is this gospel gonna speak to the lived experience of poor people in Latin America? Cone is saying, "How is this gospel gonna speak to the lived experience of poor Black people in the United States?" Right? How is it going to affirm our humanity, our dignity? How does it actually give us power, uh, and, and, and authority? And James Cone being a product and child of the historic Black church, which itself is rooted in liberation, he's trying to reconcile, like, how is it that this is going to, you know, how is it that the church is not meeting this moment, sort of even given his own understanding of his faith formation coming up as he, as he came up in Arkansas.
Darrell Hamilton IIGUEST
So, and the fact that he was born and raised in, in Arkansas, I'm from Oklahoma, we had stayed away.
Darrell Hamilton IIGUEST
I never knew who this man was.
Rafael NarbonaGUEST
Y entonces, bueno, pues fue un momento en que surgió la teología de la liberación, que es una escuela teológica de los años finales de los 60.
Rafael NarbonaGUEST
La crea un sacerdote peruano llamado Gustavo Gutiérrez.
Rafael NarbonaGUEST
Publica un libro que se titula "Teología de la liberación".
Rafael NarbonaGUEST
Entonces, utiliza el marxismo como herramienta de análisis, pero con la convicción de que el marxismo, las alternativas que ofrece no son humanas ni éticas.
Dan HoranHOST
David, I'll see your critiques and rebo- respond with a critique.
Dan HoranHOST
I think in general, I- your, your critique about the lack of the material dimension of solidarity I think is actually spot on, and this is where wisdom from particularly the Global South, I'm thinking of Latin American liberation theologians, the work of Gustavo Gutierrez and Leonardo Boff, among others.
Dan HoranHOST
And I think Pope Francis had a deeper sense of this because of his cultural context and his, his upbringing and formation, both as a, a minister in the church, but a- also as somebody who is formed in, in that context of Latin America.
Dan HoranHOST
So I wanna affirm that.
Dean DettloffHOST
Uh, the idea that joy is the, the opposition, uh, to oppression is also something that shows up in lots of other liberation theology.
Dean DettloffHOST
Uh, uh, Gustavo Gutierrez, he wrote a lot about that, um, Leonardo Boff writes about it.
Dean DettloffHOST
Lots of other people too, that, like, there is a kind of, you know, uh, resistance involved in just being, like, able to have a good time in spite of how bad everything is or, uh, in defiance of how bad everything is.
Dean DettloffHOST
That is something I am not very good at.
LauraHOST
The rest of the universe gets used for our human ends.
LauraHOST
In terms of liberation theology, Lindsay mentions one of the influential Latin American theologians, Gustavo Gutierrez, who lived from 1928 to 2024 and was a Peruvian priest.
LauraHOST
He studied medicine and literature before studying to be a priest in Europe.
LauraHOST
He wrote A Theology of Liberation in 1971, which Lindsay draws from in this chapter.