PERUVIAN Gustavo Gutiérrez HAS DIED IN A NURSING HOME IN LIMA PERU AFTER HIS REPUTATION HAD BEEN POLISHED AND PROMOTED BY FELLOW MARXIST POPE FRANCIS IN RECENT YEARS.
By Rev Thomas Littleton
10/24/2024
One of the central figures in the rise of social justice false gospel through his “Liberation Theology” has died but his sad legacy and impact will live on in social movements and seminaries globally.
(Gustavo Gutiérrez attended a news conference at the Vatican, May 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez, the father of liberation theology, died Tuesday night . He is rightly described as a Marxist by his detractors and held at a distance under Vatican scrutiny for much of his career. But he and his work were “partly rehabilitated” by fellow Marxist, Jesuit, Pope Francis.
EXTREMELY PROGRESSIVE CHRISTIANITY TODAY CELEBRATED BOTH GUSTAVO AND HIS LIBERATION THEOLOGY.
Christianity Today
“The Evangelical Legacy of Gustavo Gutierrez’s Liberation Theology “
“How the Peruvian priest influenced the fathers of integral mission“
“Gustavo Gutiérrez, the Catholic theologian who first argued for a “preferential option for the poor,” died on October 23 at the age of 96.
Scholars and pastors reflect on how his liberation theology impacted Latin American evangelical theology and church growth:”
LIBERATION THEOLOGY AND ITS ORIGINS AND INFLUENCE .
Liberation theologies first emmerged in Latin America and spread among Catholics AFTER the Second “Vatican Council” in the ealry 60s. Its ideologies are at the root of “social justice” and the call for “oppressed minorities” to be “liberated” from generational oppressions and for the oppressors to have a price extracted for their long- term oppressive actions and harm. it was criticized based on the core fundemntal aspects of liberation theology use of Marxist economic theory.
“A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation”
“It would be difficult to name another theological book these past five decades that has been more influential, has inspired more believers and non-believers alike to think differently about the Christian faith, and has engendered so much controversy.” So begins Michael E. Lee’s introduction to this 50th anniversary edition of the classic work that signaled a new style of doing theology.”
“The theological project launched in this book was, as Fr. Gutiérrez wrote, “based on the gospel and the experiences of men and women committed to the process of liberation in the oppressed land of Latin America.” It was “born of the experience of shared efforts to abolish the current unjust situation and to build a different society, freer and more human.” Yet its influence was quickly felt around the world, inspiring numerous offshoots, as well as provoking critical reactions, both inside and outside the Church.”
“A Theology of Liberation has won wide acclaim as one of the most influential works of Christian theology of the last century. Yet Gutiérrez himself concluded the book by noting that any theology of liberation “is not worth one act of genuine solidarity with exploited social classes. They are not worth one act of faith, love, and hope committed . . . in active participation to liberate humankind from everything that dehumanizes it and prevents it from living according to the will of God.”
LIBERATION THEOLOGY SATURATION AND MANIFESTATIONS ARE EVERYWHERE
Gutierrez influence came to the US in time to be merged into and inspire many in the Civil Rights Movement. Sadly MOST of that spread through the influence of churches caught up in the appeal of a message which provided “justice” in the name of Jesus. Today, for example, Liberation Theology is at the core of Black Lives Matter and the social action and riots of recent years INCLUDING THE CALLS for Palestinian Liberation. BUT the Liberation Theology movement has impacted many leaders across the church landscape as it is both rooted in Marxism and promoted as a “Gospel Cause”. Gutierrez understood these broader applications of his “gospel of liberation” for oppressed when he said “As we progress, various shades of meaning and deeper levels of understanding will complement this initial effort.“
In the article “Theology and Poverty” he said :
- The announcement and testimony of the reign of God denounces poverty.
- The intelligence of faith reveals essential aspects of God and provides a perspective for theological work.
- Walking in the footsteps of Jesus, otherwise known as spirituality, is, on the deepest level, the basis on which everything else rests.
THE MARXIST ASSUMPTIONS OF LIBERATION THEOLOGY
“Consisting of a synthesis of Christian theology and Marxist socioeconomic analyses, liberation theology stresses social concern for the poor and advocates for liberation for oppressed peoples. In addition to being a theological matter, liberation theology was often tied to concrete political practice.”
“As a radical trend in Christianity, liberation theology can be interpreted as an ideology for the oppressed. Like Marxism, it releases a hope for the oppressed who would liberate themselves from miserable society.Using a Marxist analysis of capitalism, liberation theology argues that workers are alienated and so exploited. It argues that a capitalist system sacrifices the needs of the many for the benefit of the few.”
SOME FURTHER QUOTES BY GUSTAVO GUTIERREZ.
“The future of history belongs to the poor and exploited.“
(NOTE HIS VIEW OF THE “JESUS” OF LIBERATION THEOLOGY)
SOME QUOTES ECHOING LIBERATION THEOLOGY.
MLK-
“If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition that we now face surely will fail. We’re going to win our freedom because both the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of the almighty God are embodied in our echoing demands.”
““Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want to cry. It means trying to hold on to physical life amid psychological death. It means the pain of watching your children grow up with clouds of inferiority in their mental skies. It means having your legs cut off, and then being condemned for being a cripple. It means seeing your mother and father spiritually murdered by the slings and arrows of daily exploitation, and then being hated for being an orphan.”
NELSON MANDELA
“We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.
Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/liberate-quotes”
EVEN PERFORMERS LIKE “LADY GAGA”
“Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.
Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/liberate-quotes”
COMING TO THE EVANGELICAL CHURCH FROM CATHOLIC THEOLOGIANS.
EXAMPLES OF EVANGELICAL INFILTRATION OF LIBERATION THEOLOGY
- “Red Letter ChristiansA group of authors, clergy, and social justice advocates that combine evangelical theology with liberation theology. They use the teachings of Jesus, and the framing of inequality as social sin by liberation theology pioneer Gustavo Gutierrez, to expand their understanding of salvation.”
- “Evangelical Theologies of Liberation and JusticeA book that brings together the voices of academics, activists, and pastors to explore the relationship between liberation theology and evangelical tenets of faith. The book covers topics such as race, gender, and animal rights. “
JAMES CONE/LIBERATION THEOLOGY /CRT AND SOUTHERN BAPTIST SEMINARIES
JAMES CONE – BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY
“A formidable figure in life, Cone leaves a considerable legacy: as a pioneering figure in the development of black theology; as mentor to several generations of black theologians and preachers; and as someone who worked across boundaries to find common cause with other liberation theologians, such as Gustavo Gutiérrez.”
WALTER STRICKLAND A PROFESSOR AT SEBTS WAS FAR TO OPEN ABOUT HIS TEACHING OF (BLACK) LIBERATION THEOLOGY AND “QUOTING WITHOUT NAMING” JAMES CONE.
NEW YORK TIMES APRIL 2019
“Can Black Evangelicals Save the Whole Movement?”
“African-American spiritual leaders are talking about racism — and some white churchgoers are listening.”
STRICKLAND FROM THE NYTIMES PIECE- COMMENTS ON PRESIDENT TRUMP
““I think people are hungrier for this conversation,” said Mr. Strickland, who travels around the country to advise Christians on how to recognize and mitigate systemic racism. “The reality of Donald Trump and all the issues we’ve faced since his candidacy have really hardened the hearts of some, but it’s also ripped many people even farther away from conflating the Republican Party with the party of Christ.”
“Some of the Christian right’s most prominent leaders have split over Mr. Trump’s racist, xenophobic rhetoric. They disagree over how to fulfill the earthly duties of Christians — especially the obligation to make this fallen world look more like the Kingdom of God foretold in the Book of Revelation, when people “from every nation, tribe, people and language” shall stand together “before the throne and before the Lamb.”
STRICKLAND ON THE DIVISIVE AND EXPOSIVE MLK/50 CONFERENCE IN 2018 PRESENTED BY ERLC AND THE GOSPEL COALITION .
“Last spring, two influential conservative evangelical groups hosted a splashy conference in Memphis called “MLK50” to “reflect on the state of racial unity in the church and the culture” on the 50th anniversary of the death of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. But other conservatives complained that the event was, as one writer put it, “dripping with critical race theory, intersectionality and cultural Marxism.”
STRICKLAND ON SBTS PRESIDENT ALBERT MOHLER’S “HELP”.
“But this old debate has taken a new turn. Mr. MacArthur’s statement on social justice provoked a backlash from fellow conservatives, like R. Albert Mohler Jr., the president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville. He cautioned that “part of what it means to be made in God’s image is that we are accountable to divine justice and to seeking, through human flourishing, to see God’s justice reflected in a fallen world.” Mr. Mohler helped to purge his seminary of moderate faculty members in the 1990s, but last year he commissioned a report about the school’s complicity in the “horrifying realities of American slavery, Jim Crow segregation, racism and even the avowal of white racial supremacy.””
STRICKLAND’S DECEPTIVE ADMISSIONS ABOUT TEACHING JAMES CONE
“Radical thinkers have found their way into the citadels of white evangelicalism. Reading the black liberation theologian James Cone helped Mr. Strickland, the theology professor, see how white theologians often ignore the structural sources of earthly suffering. In 1969, the Rev. Dr. Cone admonished “new blacks, redeemed in Christ” to “say to whites that authentic love is not ‘help,’ not giving Christmas baskets but working for political, social and economic justice, which always means a redistribution of power.”
“Courses in African-American theology have been on the books at moderate evangelical seminaries since the 1970s. But it is significant that Mr. Strickland has brought a thinker like Dr. Cone into the heart of the conservative Southern Baptist Convention. Mr. Strickland spent years studying in majority-white evangelical schools, where he mastered the idiom of the Christian right. When he speaks to conservative white congregations, he is careful: “While Cone’s ideas are in play, I don’t mention him by name, because I don’t want to put unnecessary stumbling blocks in their way.” Scripture’s authority comes first. “If I’m able to demonstrate that this black man in front of them has read the Bible, I gain credit with them.”
ACTIVIST PROFESSOR AND RESOLUTION 9 CRT/INTERSECTIONALITY CO-AUTHOR WALTER STRICKLAND IS ONE OF THE MORE WELL KNOWN AND EXPOSED SOUTHERN BAPTIST LIBERATION THEOLOGY ADVOCATES. HE REMAINS EMPLOYED AT SEBTS INDOCTRINATING MINISTERIAL STUDENTS AND IS ALSO HELPING CHRISTIAN EDUCATION ORGANIZATION ACSI TO SPREAD THE FALSE TEACHINGS OF CRT / INTERSECTIOANLITY AND BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY among conservative biblical Christian faith in America.
“Assistant Professor of Systematic and Contextual Theology and Associate Vice President for Diversity at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary Walter R. Strickland II appeared in the below podcast (in 2016 I think, the video has been doing the rounds on social media) promoting the writings of black liberation theologian J. Deotis Roberts. There is a particularly worrying discussion from around 13:40mins about what it means to be saved and what is justice. Whilst in reference to James Cone’s eschatology, in distinction to Roberts’, the lack of Biblical clarity is very troubling. In the latter half of the discussion Strickland also appears to advocate a racialised understanding of God and “restoration”.”
“This is what is being taught in supposedly conservative seminaries. Along with the recent cover-up by SBTS and Al Mohler of self-professed racist Matthew Hall’s outrageous statements it’s clear something is deeply wrong in “conservative” Christianity.” ( FROM POST AT “PURITAN BOARD)
CRT/ INTERSECTIONALITY REMAIN IN CONSERVATIVE BAPTIST SEMINARIES.
THE CULTURAL IMPACT. GUSTAVO GUTIERREZ “GRAVE INFLEUNCE” LIVES ON.
Brannon Howse in his book “Grave Influence” documents many key progressive and Marxist leaders of the past who have their influence continue to expand BEYOND THE GRAVE.
“Grave Influence: 21 Radicals and Their Worldviews That Rule America From the Grave.”
By Brannon Howse 2009
Gustavo Gutiérrez HAS NOW JOINED THEM as Liberation Theology /ideology continues to spread.
Liberation Theology and its trickle down identities dividing class and seeking to excercise its power through endless protest and activism are not going away. The media, entertainment, politics, and cluture in general are salted and saturated with it like a poison waterhole in a desert western. People are hungry for change but have no idea when their voices join the chorus of Liberation Theology that they are actually crying out to become voices of advocacy toward an even more oppressive system which has inspired it … Marxism.
CONCLUSION.
THESE are the kinds of deceptions being used to teach “LIBERATION THEOLOGY in once conservative biblical seminaries by hired activist working for men like Albert Mohler and other SBC seminary Presidents.
Let the NY Times Strickland interview say it in thier own words:
“Radical thinkers have found their way into the citadels of white evangelicalism. Reading the black liberation theologian James Cone helped Mr. Strickland, the theology professor, see how white theologians often ignore the structural sources of earthly suffering. In 1969, the Rev. Dr. Cone admonished “new blacks, redeemed in Christ” to “say to whites that authentic love is not ‘help,’ not giving Christmas baskets but working for political, social and economic justice, which always means a redistribution of power.”
AGAIN IN STRICKLANDS OWN WORDS-
““While Cone’s ideas are in play, I don’t mention him by name, because I don’t want to put unnecessary stumbling blocks in their way.” Scripture’s authority comes first. “If I’m able to demonstrate that this black man in front of them has read the Bible, I gain credit with them.”…”He walked me through the argument he used when he spoke at North Greenville University, a Baptist school in Tigerville, S.C. “There was the fall, and all we do now as God’s vice regents is influenced by that fall. So if we’re sinners in need of redemption, so, too, are all the things we create, like law, policy, procedure, practice. That right there is systemic injustice,” he said. “Before they know it, they’re nodding their heads. They’re agreeing that systemic injustice and racism are a form of sin. I get in the back door by walking around the linguistic land mines that are so charged in our cultural climate.”
“Seminaries like Southeastern play a crucial role in shaping the mind-set of future pastors. There is already evidence that some church leaders are rethinking the traditional strategy of trying to win converts by persuading people that church is full of members just like themselves. “The homogeneous principle of church planting — once the norm — is out of favor,” Kevin Smith, a pastor in Chattanooga, Tenn. wrote in Evangelicals magazine. “Homogeneity is out and multiethnic is in.”
Churches seeking to diversify their pews can turn to a growing library of books and study guides…”
Liberation Theology all stems from the Marxist influences on a Latim American Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez twisting scripture- wrapped in bible verses and seducing his inspired activist henchmen like James Cone and Walter Strickland and hundreds of others whose influence will continue to trickle down through and dismantle churches and movements once committed to Biblical truth the faith of many who are taken in by it.
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