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Repentance, Prayer and End Time: Christian Jargon in Crisis?

Review of Article: The Bible in Latin American Liberation Theology (Arthur F. McGovern)

                                                             Latin Americans perceived that authentic liberation could be experienced only through the experience of liberation from capitalist forces. This awareness compelled them to search for liberative dimensions of the scripture. As a result, four main themes from the Bible recur most often in the liberation theology: God as Liberator, with the Exodus as a special prototype; God’s command to do justice; Jesus, liberation and Kingdom of God and Jesus and confrontations in his life which gave a political dimension to his actions. God as a Liberator: Exodus The recent biblical scholarship stresses on God who acts in the history through revealing himself gradually over a period of time and who entered into human history by incarnation. God reveals himself by acting in the history to bring salvation. God initiates human history by the gift of creation. He revealed to Abraham and his descendants, saved Noah from the flood, ke