Definition of "liberation theology" []

• A school of theology, especially prevalent in the Roman Catholic Church in Latin America, that finds in the Gospel a call to free people from political, social, and material oppression. (noun)

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• "She drew on the liberation theology that had fired Romes earlier slave revolts and still fueled the anti-Roman war that had raged for fifteen years in the eastern Mediterranean."