Latin American Theology Mission Studies - Church and Cultures Gold Medal Winner

Gold Medal Winner

the process by which a local church integrates its understanding of the Gospel (“text”) with the local culture (“context”)

lifting up biblical figures such as Samson

For Jon Sobrino

Latin American Theology Mission Studies - Church and Cultures Gold Medal WinnerWith the emergence of liberation theology in the 1970s, Latin American theology made a bold entrance on the world scene. The immediate roots of this theology were in the efforts of the Latin American bishops at the Medellin Conference in 1968 to reflect on the implications of the Second Vatican Council for a continent marked by poverty and social injustice. That conference charted a new preferential option for the poor, and it also fostered a new