liberation theology

God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican

by Gerald Posner  · 3 Feb 2015  · 1,590pp  · 353,834 words

decree as “souped-up Marxism,” but it would become the rallying cry for a generation of activist priests in Central and Latin America who advocated liberation theology, a volatile mixture of left-wing politics and Catholicism.102,VII Populorum Progressio at first concerned Sindona since it also attacked unrestrained capitalism: “Free market

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in Vietnam or efforts to ban the bomb were too frequent as far as the Vatican was concerned. Even worse was their enthusiastic dissemination of liberation theology, the combination of Catholicism and Marxism that fueled communist movements in El Salvador and Guatemala. The Jesuits’ Superior General, Pedro Arrupe, was an avowed political

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told a reporter that there were “kernels or seeds of truth” in Marxism, he nevertheless dramatically changed course from Paul VI when it came to liberation theology, a twentieth-century mixture of Catholicism and left-wing ideologies that emphasized a redistribution of wealth to help the poor, particularly through political activism.40

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Argentina’s Jesuit provincial before becoming the rector of the seminary from which he had graduated.13 Bergoglio was never swept up in the progressive liberation theology that flourished among many of his contemporaries. No group was more radicalized throughout Latin America than the Jesuits. But the limit of his own activism

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money came from the Vatican while $500,000 came from the Ambrosiano. 40 See generally Hebblethwaite, Pope John Paul II and the Church, “Pope Repudiates Liberation Theology,” 113-19, 264-65; Willey, God’s Politician, “Salvation Politics,” 113–37. 41 In Guatemala in May 1981, General Vernon Walters visited the country as

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return of Papal States sought by, 30 social agenda of, 31 Syllabus reaffirmed by, 31 Leone, Giovanni, 221 Levy, Jonathan, 391–92, 394, 449n, 672n liberation theology, 264, 497 Libya, 51, 221 Italian invasion of, 37 Liechtenstein, 57, 113, 119, 171, 236, 414, 486–87, 638n Loftus, John, 132 Lombardi, Federico, 432

A History of Judaism

by Martin Goodman  · 25 Oct 2017  · 768pp  · 252,874 words

the search for a rational Judaism paralleled the contemporary adoption of Protestant Christians, in an atmosphere of religious revival particularly in Germany, of a meaningful liberal theology based on biblical criticism. Both historians and theologians did their best to minimize the mystical traditions of the kabbalah, denigrating or ignoring such practices as

A History of Western Philosophy

by Aaron Finkel  · 21 Mar 1945  · 1,402pp  · 369,528 words

shadow of turning; the life after death is eternal and unchanging. The cheerfulness of the nineteenth century turned men against these static conceptions, and modern liberal theology believes that there is progress in heaven and evolution in the Godhead. But even in this conception there is something permanent, namely progress itself and

A History of the Bible: The Story of the World's Most Influential Book

by John Barton  · 3 Jun 2019  · 904pp  · 246,845 words

modern culture, challenges colonial power and embraces and empowers non-elite groups.54 Here it joins again with theological interests, such as the concerns of liberation theology, which pays attention to how the text can enable oppressed groups to express their longing for freedom. At the moment there is a flourishing industry

Europe: A History

by Norman Davies  · 1 Jan 1996

. In May 1981, in St Peter’s Square, he survived an assassination attempt by a Turkish terrorist, possibly hired by the KGB. Implacably hostile to ‘liberation theology’, birth control, and clerical indiscipline, he was in some respects a fierce traditionalist. His suspension of the Swiss theologian Professor Hans Küng (b. 1928), who

Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World

by Deirdre N. McCloskey  · 15 Nov 2011  · 1,205pp  · 308,891 words

persistent egalitarian radicalism of the Church of Faith, as against the Church of Power, from the Desert Fathers of the third century down to the Liberation Theology of the twentieth.16 The Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498) brought the Florence of 1494 to radical democracy (in his case combined with conservative

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eudaimonism favorable to trade-tested betterment was regularly overcome by a strictly hierarchical church governance. Notoriously the Church of Power, with few exceptions such as Liberation Theology, has sided with the government of the day, as spectacularly in French history—in contrast with the struggle against governments in the Radical Reformation. The

Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science

by Jim Al-Khalili  · 28 Sep 2010  · 467pp  · 114,570 words

. In al-Mutawakkil, we see the first of a line of more conservative caliphs and the beginning of the backlash against the free-thinking and liberal theology of the Mu’tazilite movement. And al-Mutawakkil’s often violent persecution of scholars whose views did not accord with his more fundamentalist version of

Arabs: A 3,000 Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires

by Tim Mackintosh-Smith  · 2 Mar 2019

The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

by Christopher Hitchens  · 14 Jun 2007  · 740pp  · 236,681 words

to emphasize reflects as much as it shapes their moral character and interests. Moral considerations, then, should draw theists inexorably away from fundamentalism and toward liberal theology—that is, toward forms of theism that deny the literal truth of the Bible and that attribute much of its content to ancient confusion, credulity

God Is Back: How the Global Revival of Faith Is Changing the World

by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge  · 31 Mar 2009  · 518pp  · 143,914 words

a quarter of America’s population, according to Pew, significantly more than fifty years ago. People who seek liberation from liberation do not turn to liberation theology. The most remarkable religious success story of the past century has been the most emotional religion of all. Pentecostalism was founded just over a century

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opposition in Eastern Europe, who were in the process of overthrowing Soviet hegemony, and by Latin American Catholics, who were tiring of the excesses of liberation theology. The book seemed to offer a new and exciting way forward for Catholics: challenging them to abandon their long-standing suspicion of capitalism and instead

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of 1 percent a year since 1991,13 mainly to Pentecostal churches, Rome is finally responding. That has meant getting rid of a lot of liberation theology; and also imitating the Pentecostals. Brazil’s most famous priest is now Marcelo Rossi, a former physical-education teacher who has been known to perform

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that the Russian soul—particularly as embodied in the Russian Orthodox Church—is superior to Western cash-and-carry materialism. In Latin America devotees of liberation theology have long regarded neoliberalism as the spawn of the devil. Now Evangelicals often back left-wingers in some of the poorer parts of Brazil. Christianity

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and religion. See Koran; Sharia law; Supreme Court Lebanon, politics and religion Lecky, W. E. H. Left Behind series Lenin, Vladimir Lewis, Bernard Lewis. S. Liberation theology Liberty University Likud Party Lilla, Mark Lilly Endowment Lindsay, Michael Literature culture, cult of secularism in America Victorian-era loss of faith Livingston, William Locke

The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics

by Christopher Lasch  · 16 Sep 1991  · 669pp  · 226,737 words

After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order

by Rana Dasgupta  · 27 Apr 2026  · 686pp  · 188,424 words

Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy

by Robert A. Sirico  · 20 May 2012  · 267pp  · 70,250 words

The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction

by Mark Lilla  · 19 Oct 2015  · 113pp  · 36,039 words

Big Three in Economics: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes

by Mark Skousen  · 22 Dec 2006  · 330pp  · 77,729 words

To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise

by Bethany Moreton  · 15 May 2009  · 391pp  · 22,799 words

Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire

by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri  · 1 Jan 2004  · 475pp  · 149,310 words

Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century

by Christian Caryl  · 30 Oct 2012  · 780pp  · 168,782 words

Gray Lady Down: What the Decline and Fall of the New York Times Means for America

by William McGowan  · 16 Nov 2010  · 316pp  · 91,969 words

Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy

by Wolfram Eilenberger  · 14 Sep 2020

Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism

by Peter Marshall  · 2 Jan 1992  · 1,327pp  · 360,897 words

Propaganda and the Public Mind

by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian  · 31 Mar 2015

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

by Yuval Noah Harari  · 29 Aug 2018  · 389pp  · 119,487 words

I You We Them

by Dan Gretton

What Kind of Creatures Are We? (Columbia Themes in Philosophy)

by Noam Chomsky  · 7 Dec 2015

Hopes and Prospects

by Noam Chomsky  · 1 Jan 2009

Rethinking Islamism: The Ideology of the New Terror

by Meghnad Desai  · 25 Apr 2008

Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World

by Tracy Kidder  · 8 Sep 2003  · 331pp  · 107,226 words

Rogue States

by Noam Chomsky  · 9 Jul 2015

Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams  · 1 Oct 2015  · 357pp  · 95,986 words

The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being in Charge Isn’t What It Used to Be

by Moises Naim  · 5 Mar 2013  · 474pp  · 120,801 words

Making the Future: The Unipolar Imperial Moment

by Noam Chomsky  · 15 Mar 2010  · 258pp  · 63,367 words

Who Rules the World?

by Noam Chomsky

Extreme Rambling: Walking Israel's Separation Barrier. For Fun.

by Mark Thomas  · 13 Apr 2011  · 359pp  · 104,870 words

Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking

by Michael Bhaskar  · 2 Nov 2021

The Rich and the Rest of Us

by Tavis Smiley  · 15 Feb 2012  · 181pp  · 50,196 words

Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017

by Ian Kershaw  · 29 Aug 2018  · 736pp  · 233,366 words

Trust: The Social Virtue and the Creation of Prosperity

by Francis Fukuyama  · 1 Jan 1995  · 585pp  · 165,304 words

Central America

by Carolyn McCarthy, Greg Benchwick, Joshua Samuel Brown, Alex Egerton, Matthew Firestone, Kevin Raub, Tom Spurling and Lucas Vidgen  · 2 Jan 2001

The Trouble With Brunch: Work, Class and the Pursuit of Leisure

by Shawn Micallef  · 10 Jun 2014  · 104pp  · 34,784 words

City on the Verge

by Mark Pendergrast  · 5 May 2017  · 425pp  · 117,334 words

Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance

by Noam Chomsky  · 1 Jan 2003  · 351pp  · 96,780 words

Understanding Power

by Noam Chomsky  · 26 Jul 2010

Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?

by Alan Weisman  · 23 Sep 2013  · 579pp  · 164,339 words

Diverse Bodies, Diverse Practices: Toward an Inclusive Somatics

by Don Hanlon Johnson  · 10 Sep 2018  · 358pp  · 106,951 words

What We Say Goes: Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing World

by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian  · 1 Oct 2007

Raising Lazarus: Hope, Justice, and the Future of America’s Overdose Crisis

by Beth Macy  · 15 Aug 2022  · 389pp  · 111,372 words

Utopias: A Brief History From Ancient Writings to Virtual Communities

by Howard P. Segal  · 20 May 2012  · 299pp  · 19,560 words

The end of history and the last man

by Francis Fukuyama  · 28 Feb 2006  · 446pp  · 578 words

The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels

by Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans  · 11 Mar 2024  · 405pp  · 113,895 words

Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa

by Martin Meredith  · 1 Jan 2007  · 649pp  · 181,179 words

Sugar: A Bittersweet History

by Elizabeth Abbott  · 14 Sep 2011  · 522pp  · 144,511 words

Pirates and Emperors, Old and New

by Noam Chomsky  · 7 Apr 2015

Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World

by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian  · 4 Oct 2005  · 165pp  · 47,405 words

No Such Thing as Society

by Andy McSmith  · 19 Nov 2010  · 613pp  · 151,140 words

Lonely Planet Nicaragua (Travel Guide)

by Lonely Planet, Alex Egerton and Greg Benchwick  · 30 Jun 2013

How the World Works

by Noam Chomsky, Arthur Naiman and David Barsamian  · 13 Sep 2011  · 489pp  · 111,305 words

Rethinking Money: How New Currencies Turn Scarcity Into Prosperity

by Bernard Lietaer and Jacqui Dunne  · 4 Feb 2013

Visit Sunny Chernobyl: And Other Adventures in the World's Most Polluted Places

by Andrew Blackwell  · 22 May 2012  · 355pp  · 106,952 words

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

by Clay Shirky  · 28 Feb 2008  · 313pp  · 95,077 words

Killing Hope: Us Military and Cia Interventions Since World War 2

by William Blum  · 15 Jan 2003

Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else

by Chrystia Freeland  · 11 Oct 2012  · 481pp  · 120,693 words

Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

by Ha-Joon Chang  · 26 Dec 2007  · 334pp  · 98,950 words

Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change From the Cult of Technology

by Kentaro Toyama  · 25 May 2015  · 494pp  · 116,739 words

Bad Samaritans: The Guilty Secrets of Rich Nations and the Threat to Global Prosperity

by Ha-Joon Chang  · 4 Jul 2007  · 347pp  · 99,317 words

A Pelican Introduction Economics: A User's Guide

by Ha-Joon Chang  · 26 May 2014  · 385pp  · 111,807 words

Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency

by Joshua Green  · 17 Jul 2017  · 296pp  · 78,112 words

Powers and Prospects

by Noam Chomsky  · 16 Sep 2015

McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality

by Ronald Purser  · 8 Jul 2019  · 242pp  · 67,233 words

Planet of Slums

by Mike Davis  · 1 Mar 2006  · 232pp

I Hate the Internet: A Novel

by Jarett Kobek  · 3 Nov 2016  · 302pp  · 74,350 words

Respectable: The Experience of Class

by Lynsey Hanley  · 20 Apr 2016  · 230pp  · 79,229 words

Uncharted: How to Map the Future

by Margaret Heffernan  · 20 Feb 2020  · 335pp  · 97,468 words

The Story of Stuff: The Impact of Overconsumption on the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health-And How We Can Make It Better

by Annie Leonard  · 22 Feb 2011  · 538pp  · 138,544 words

A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary

by Alain de Botton  · 1 Jan 2009  · 66pp  · 19,580 words

Who Is Rich?

by Matthew Klam  · 3 Jul 2017  · 291pp  · 92,688 words

The Ministry for the Future: A Novel

by Kim Stanley Robinson  · 5 Oct 2020  · 583pp  · 182,990 words

The Laundromat : Inside the Panama Papers, Illicit Money Networks, and the Global Elite

by Jake Bernstein  · 14 Oct 2019  · 470pp  · 125,992 words