How to Use liberation theology in a Sentence

liberation theology

noun
  • The nature of the Resistance lends itself to a certain kind of liberation theology.
    — Robert Zaretsky, Foreign Affairs, 23 Aug. 2019
  • As committed Christians, they were steeped in black liberation theology.
    — David Montgomery, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2019
  • The pope has gone on record against liberation theology for decades, criticizing the blending of church theology with politics.
    — Fox News, 2 July 2022
  • Gates considers how Black liberation theology seeks to free people of color from social injustice on earth, rather than in the afterlife.
    — Natasha Gural, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Giraldo said Monday that Torres was one of the precursors of the church doctrine known as liberation theology.
    — Manuel Rueda, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2026
  • But the Spirit revived prophetic witness through the social gospel, liberation theology, and civil rights struggles.
    — Rev. Frank Alagna, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Their thinking on social justice has underpinned the theory and practice of liberation theology.
    — Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News, 26 May 2018
  • The central battle was over the liberation theology movement in Latin America.
    — Rachel Donadio, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Like many early members, Habib was deeply influenced by Musa al-Sadr, a Shiite cleric who preached a kind of liberation theology.
    — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
  • The group was founded in 1964 by students inspired by the Cuban revolution and Catholic priests steeped in liberation theology.
    — Maximo Anderson, Bloomberg.com, 10 Jan. 2018
  • This scholarship could swerve from Kathy Acker to liberation theology and ancient apophatic traditions.
    — Geoffrey Mak, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2023
  • Was he influenced by liberation theology?
    — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Yolanda recruited gillagers into the growing movement to topple Marcos that Catholic priests instructed in liberation theology were leading.
    — Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Black liberation theology has extensively drawn from Exodus, viewing Moses as a prophet and revolutionary leader.
    — Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 12 Apr. 2025
  • Roundtables on topics from Black liberation theology to transgender identity are common, proposed by an active contingent of nearly 100 young adult members.
    — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 June 2022
  • The papacy of John Paul II drew other lines, reining in liberation theology, insisting on moral truths, and buttressing church authority.
    — R. R. Reno, Foreign Affairs, 13 Nov. 2018
  • One of the Jesuits, Father Ignacio Ellacuría, was a vocal advocate of liberation theology.
    — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Feminism, social justice, racial equality -- all these things resulted from liberal biblical criticism and liberation theology.
    — Diana Butler Bass, CNN, 17 June 2021
  • In other speeches, Harris has invoked liberation theology, the strain of Christian thought that emphasizes social concern for the poor and political liberation for oppressed peoples.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Aug. 2020
  • Asian liberation theology also embraces Exodus as a critique against colonialism and imperialism.
    — Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 12 Apr. 2025
  • His office censured several leading proponents of liberation theology, and by the early 1990s the movement was considered defeated.
    — Rachel Donadio, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Harris frequently cited the New Testament parable of the Good Samaritan and liberation theology during speeches and campaign stops.
    — Matthew Brown, USA TODAY, 3 Sep. 2019
  • It was also politically driven as a fight back against the rise of liberation theology in Latin America, a radical movement which began in the 1960s and focussed on supporting the poor.
    — Christopher Lamb, CNN, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Critics argue that Black liberation theology, which melds Christianity with the Black struggle for liberation from various forms of oppression, has Marxist roots.
    — Aaron Kliegman, Fox News, 12 May 2023
  • Rather, Curry was drawing on the rhetoric of liberation theology — a 20th century theological tradition inspired by Marxist thought — to characterize love as a necessary, chaotic, and political force.
    — Tara Isabella Burton, Vox, 20 May 2018
  • As the first pope from Latin America, Francis’ teachings on accompaniment were rooted in the Catholic liberation theology that spread throughout the region in the late 1960s and 1970s.
    — Kristy Nabhan-Warren, The Conversation, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Appointed in 1999, Cipriani had sought to assert control over the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, widely viewed as a redoubt of liberation theology.
    — Paul Elie, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
  • As an opponent of the military’s authoritarian rule, Cardinal Hummes became associated with proponents of liberation theology, a social justice movement within the Catholic Church.
    — New York Times, 13 July 2022
  • The Sodalitium was founded in 1971 as one of several Catholic societies born as a conservative reaction to the left-leaning liberation theology movement that swept through Latin America in the 1960s.
    — ABC News, 23 May 2026

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