LS 706 - Liberation Thinking

(3.00 cr.)

Examines the foundations of liberation thinking during the Renaissance. This course compares European and Latin American paradigms developed during the European conquest of the Americas, and checks in on them again during the seventeenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Some themes studied are mortality; justice/charity; God/Church; spiritual/temporal power; spirituality/sovereignty; immanence/transcendence; the nature of the soul; virtue; theology and history; the Gospels; the evangelization of Native Americans; the doctrine of non-violence; the Counter-Reformation; Utopian visions; and revolutionary appropriations of Christ (liberation theology).