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Liberation theology

Liberation theology: A Christian movement from the late 1960’s, it features primary concern for the lives of the poor as a class which official religions have repudiated, conceiving its ultimate concern as “the resurrection of Jesus Christ in the body of the suffering people”.

Source: What is Good? What is Bad? The Value of All Values across Time, Place and Theories’ by John McMurtry, Philosophy and World Problems, Volume I-III, UNESCO in partnership with Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems: Oxford, 2004-11.