Liberation Theology

Question 1

Liberation Theology

Answer 1

A movement in Christianity, most associated with elements of South American Catholicism, that sees the need to take radical approaches to solve poverty and injustice.

Question 2

Alienation

Answer 2

Marx’s idea that humans are separated from general society when they are dehumanised and unable to live fulfilling lives.

Question 3

Capitalism

Answer 3

The economic and political system in which society operates in a free market with competition and profit driving it forward, rather than government intervention.

Question 4

Exploitation

Answer 4

The use of humans as objects and as merely means to an end.

Question 5

Marginalised

Answer 5

Those on the fringes of society.

Question 6

Marxism

Answer 6

A sociological and political theory deriving from the ideas of Karl Marx. It views all societies as developing through class struggles until they overthrow capitalism and become communist societies.

Question 7

Orthodoxy

Answer 7

Official Church teaching; right belief.

Question 8

Orthopraxis

Answer 8

Right action.

Question 9

Social sin

Answer 9

Sins performed collectively by society. Times where society as a whole wrongs a person or group of people.