Category: Theology of liberation

The jocist origins of Argentina’s theology of the people
More background on the Argentinian “theology of the people” made famous by Pope Francis in an excellent new book, Le pape du peuple, which is a series of interviews with theologian Juan Carlos Scannone.

Sources of Pope Francis’ praxis
Pope Francis’ thought “is profoundly marked by the ‘theology of the People’, an Argentinian version of the theology of liberation,” writes Belgian Benedictine, Dom Armand Veilleux, “of which three representatives were Juan Carlos Scannone, Lucio Gera and Rafael Tello.”

