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by Lilian Barger (Author)

On November 16, 2017, Pope Francis tweeted, "Poverty is not an accident. It has causes that must be recognized and removed for the good of so many of our brothers and sisters." With this statement and others like it, the first Latin American pope was associated, in the minds of many, with a stream of theology that swept the Western hemisphere in the 1960s and 70s, the movement known as liberation theology.

Born of chaotic cultural crises in Latin America and the United States, liberation theology was a trans-American intellectual movement that sought to speak for those parts of society marginalized by modern politics and religion by virtue of race, class, or sex. Led by such revolutionaries as the Peruvian Catholic priest Gustavo GutiƩrrez, the African American theologian James Cone, or the feminists Mary Daly and Rosemary Radford Ruether, the liberation theology movement sought to bridge the gulf between the religious values of justice and equality and political pragmatism. It combined theology with strands of radical politics, social theory, and the history and experience of subordinated groups to challenge the ideas that underwrite the hierarchical structures of an unjust society.

Praised by some as a radical return to early Christian ethics and decried by others as a Marxist takeover, liberation theology has a wide-raging, cross-sectional history that has previously gone undocumented. In The World Come of Age, Lilian Calles Barger offers for the first time a systematic retelling of the history of liberation theology, demonstrating how a group of theologians set the stage for a torrent of new religious activism that challenged the religious and political status quo.

Author Biography

Lilian Calles Barger is a native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, who as a child immigrated to the United States with her parents. She holds a Ph.D. in humanities/history of ideas and currently works as an independent scholar. Her expertise is in the relationship between religion and modernity, cultural history, women, and feminism. She has published two previous books and written for Women's Studies Journal, Aeon, Yes! Magazine, Christian Century, the anthology The Religious Left in Modern America: Doorkeepers of a Radical Faith (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) with her essay "Pray to God, She Will Hear Us," and online venues. She has served a podcast host for the New Books in Gender Studies, part of the New Books Network, having produced over one hundred episodes. She lives in Taos, New Mexico. Lilian@Lilianbarger.com

Number of Pages: 392
Dimensions: 0.95 x 9.18 x 6.23 IN
Publication Date: October 15, 2025
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by Lilian Barger (Author)

On November 16, 2017, Pope Francis tweeted, "Poverty is not an accident. It has causes that must be recognized and removed for the good of so many of our brothers and sisters." With this statement and others like it, the first Latin American pope was associated, in the minds of many, with a stream of theology that swept the Western hemisphere in the 1960s and 70s, the movement known as liberation theology.

Born of chaotic cultural crises in Latin America and the United States, liberation theology was a trans-American intellectual movement that sought to speak for those parts of society marginalized by modern politics and religion by virtue of race, class, or sex. Led by such revolutionaries as the Peruvian Catholic priest Gustavo GutiƩrrez, the African American theologian James Cone, or the feminists Mary Daly and Rosemary Radford Ruether, the liberation theology movement sought to bridge the gulf between the religious values of justice and equality and political pragmatism. It combined theology with strands of radical politics, social theory, and the history and experience of subordinated groups to challenge the ideas that underwrite the hierarchical structures of an unjust society.

Praised by some as a radical return to early Christian ethics and decried by others as a Marxist takeover, liberation theology has a wide-raging, cross-sectional history that has previously gone undocumented. In The World Come of Age, Lilian Calles Barger offers for the first time a systematic retelling of the history of liberation theology, demonstrating how a group of theologians set the stage for a torrent of new religious activism that challenged the religious and political status quo.

Author Biography

Lilian Calles Barger is a native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, who as a child immigrated to the United States with her parents. She holds a Ph.D. in humanities/history of ideas and currently works as an independent scholar. Her expertise is in the relationship between religion and modernity, cultural history, women, and feminism. She has published two previous books and written for Women's Studies Journal, Aeon, Yes! Magazine, Christian Century, the anthology The Religious Left in Modern America: Doorkeepers of a Radical Faith (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) with her essay "Pray to God, She Will Hear Us," and online venues. She has served a podcast host for the New Books in Gender Studies, part of the New Books Network, having produced over one hundred episodes. She lives in Taos, New Mexico. Lilian@Lilianbarger.com

Number of Pages: 392
Dimensions: 0.95 x 9.18 x 6.23 IN
Publication Date: October 15, 2025

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The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology - Paperback

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The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology - Paperback

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