Religious Studies at Thomas Adams

Here are two sides of the debate on Liberation Theology and what it has achieved.

The first link is Macias’ view of how Liberation Theology has had a positive effect on his community and others, he states that ‘our faith [Christianity] obliges us to speak out for justice.’ Macias says that it is the duty of Christians to make changes in this world in order to start building a new world.

http://www.cafod.org.uk/where_we_work/latin_america/el_salvador/
declaration_for_justice

The second link is to a paper written by Cardinal Ratzinger (who is now the current Pope) about Liberation Theology. He looks at Liberation theology from the CELAM conference in Medellin (1967) through to the CELAM conference in Puebla (1978) and asserts his position that ‘liberation theology…constitutes a fundamental threat to the faith of the Church’.

http://www.christendom-awake.org/pages/ratzinger/liberationtheol.htm

Give each of them a read and tell me what you think…do you agree with either party? Do you think they both have valid points? Or are they both off the mark?

Miss F

An article from 2001 where Elaine Storkey sets out her argument for female identity…what do you think of her views? Let me know

http://www.cbmw.org/Resources/Book-Reviews/Created-or-Constructed-The-Great-Gender-Debate-by-Elaine-Storkey

Miss F

Welcome to the Thomas Adams RS blog website thingymajigy!

Over the coming few weeks, months, years and decades there will be plenty of topics up for discussion, videos, weblinks and podcasts. The site will be open to all year groups to get involved and post comments on, but make sure you keep them clean (that includes you Mrs Iddon!)

Hope to hear from you soon,

Mr J