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A Critical Analysis of Some Hermeneutical Principles Found in Latin American Theologies of Liberation
Fawcett, Bruce G.
Fawcett, Bruce G.
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"The purpose of this article is to point out some negative elements in the hermeneutics of Latin American theologies of liberation.1 Although Latin American liberation theologies are far from unified in approach and emphases, they nevertheless share some general hermeneutical principles.2 It is not possible within the scope of one article to analyze the complete hermeneutical process at work in Latin American theologies of liberation. Therefore the areas I have chosen for examination are limited to the following: the prefacing of theological research with socio-economic analysis, the concept of a preferential option for the poor, liberation theologians' claim of an epistemological privilege for the poor, universalism, the tendency toward exemplaristic handling of the Biblical text, and experience as the criterion for evaluating truth"
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1994
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