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610:" favored by the liberation theologians, and described the Basic Christian Communities which they had promoted as "a source of great hope for the church." A few weeks later, the pope himself seemed to endorse the movement when he wrote to the Brazilian bishops that as long as it is in harmony with the teaching of the Church, "we are convinced, we and you, that the theology of liberation is not only timely but useful and necessary. It should constitute a new state-- in close connection with the former ones--of theological reflection." 605:
However, in March 1986, the Vatican published an Instruction on the subject in which, while warning against reducing "the salvific dimension of liberation to the socio-ethical dimension which is a consequence of it," it supported
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Camilo Torres' political programme was read by Catholic bishop Joseph Blomjous and was found to contain no contradictions to the Papal encyclicals.
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has been debated by various experts and theologians over the years. While some argue for the incompatibility of the two, movements like
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has stated that "it is the communists who think like Christians," and has praised liberation theology founder
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condemns "atheistic and totalitarian" ideologies associated with socialism and communism.
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have synthesized Christian theology with Marxian socio-economic analysis.
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condemned both ideologies, while distinguishing them from
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argue for the compatibility of them, and forms like
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Index

Catholicism
socialism
liberation theology
Latin American Liberation Theology
a series
Christian socialism
Christian communism
Liberation theology
Popular front
Postcolonial theology
Separation of church and state
Tolstoyan movement
Two kingdoms doctrine
Câmara
Johnson
Torres
Dimakos
Rhodakanaty
Arrupe
Boer
Bulgakov
Cone
Day
Douglas
Eagleton
Everard
Freire
Guterres
Gutiérrez
Wilson

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