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Chicago, University of

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Author(s): Marty, Martin E.
[German Version] In 1892 the oil magnate J.D. Rockefeller and…

Chicago School

(485 words)

Author(s): Marty, Martin E.
[German Version] A convergence of scholars whose work exemplified some common concerns, meth¶ ods, and influences marked the life of the University of Chicago Divinity School in the first half of the 20th century. Shailer Mathews (1863–1941), author of The Faith of Modernism (1924) and dean of the faculty (1908–1933), along with systematic theologian George B. Foster, author of The Finality of the Christian Religion (1906), helped found this modernist school of Protestant theology. Mathews retraced the evangelical roots of modernism, but stress…

Liberation Theology

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Author(s): Altmann, Walter | Marty, Martin E. | Mourkojannis, Daniel | Westhelle, Vítor
[German Version] I. Church History – II. Systematics I. Church History 1. Latin America, Africa, and Asia a. The birth of liberation theology is usually dated to 1971, when Gutiérrez published his Teologia de la liberación, or 1968, the year of the second Latin American Catholic Bishops' Conference in Medellín, Colombia. The two events represented the culmination of a process that had been underway in Latin America since the 1950s: the spread of the base community movements, which were working for social, political, and economi…