This post is for Martino and others who have been asking me about what Liberation theology is. Happily, I found a link just the other day (from the Curt Jester) to Cardinal Ratzinger's 1984 Instruction on Theologies of Liberation.
This is perhaps a little long for the "drive-by" sort of reading you often want to do with a blog, but for people who were expecting a book or a paper it is quite short. It might presume that you know a little bit about the Liberation Theology movement, but I think the people I'm talking about can figure it out.
(Just for background in section VII, from what I understand of Marx he had something of a contempt for philosophy and philosophers; he considered himself a "scientist." Actually, you might consider him to be a "philosopher" of sorts if only because his work has none of the empirical or experimental rigor that characterizes science as such. But since he claimed to be "scientific," he has an extra appeal to the sort of person who has a mythic awe of anything "scientific" and contemptuous of knowledge from any other source.)
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