EXPANDING THE VIEW

In 1988, many of the worlds leading theologians gathered at Maryknoll to honor Gustavo Gutierrez, the father of liberation theology. The occasion marked the twentieth anniversary of the Medellin conference, Gutierrezs sixtieth birthday, and publication of a new edition of his enduring classic, A Theology of Liberation. The resulting volume, The Future of Liberation Theology, included over fifty papers presented at that historic gathering. Expanding the View takes key essays from that landmark volume and makes them available for the first time in paperback. From the wealth of material, essays were selected to provide the most comprehensive overview of critical thinking on liberation theology--both its past developments and the challenges it faces in the future. Among the issues addressed