Ep. 7: Biblical Hermeneutics

The Liberation Theology Podcast

The oppressed of Latin America read the Bible not as “past history alone but as a story that is still happening today.” They see biblical history as the process of the formation of a free and united people. Jesus did not primary come to save individual people from their individual sins but to save the people from their social sin. Two chapters from Ernesto Cardenal's "The Gospel in Solentiname" exemplify the method that Gilberto da Silva Gorgulho describes in his Mysterium Liberationis chapter.

Music:
"Los molinos" by Adam Drake and Tom Jenkins
"Azure Sky" by Terry Devine-King and Adam Drake
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