Reading this remembered me of Liberation Theology, and how priests and nuns here in Latin America had to "flee" from institutional Church in order to live the Gospel commited to the poor and denouncing the injust structures. I remembered specially of father Camilo Torres, whose left the priesthood to became a guerrilleiro. In his letter he said: "I am not abandoning the faith or the Church; I am doing this to serve better the Church and the Colombian people"
Yup! Liberation theology is, as I recall, directly drawing on the Exodus account, Christ's fundamental option for the poor and the downtrodden in love, as well as St. Paul's notion that for freedom Christ has set us free; but, assuming liberation theologians haven't done so already—and I'm not nearly widely read enough to say—the above does dovetail with their work, definitely.
Reading this remembered me of Liberation Theology, and how priests and nuns here in Latin America had to "flee" from institutional Church in order to live the Gospel commited to the poor and denouncing the injust structures. I remembered specially of father Camilo Torres, whose left the priesthood to became a guerrilleiro. In his letter he said: "I am not abandoning the faith or the Church; I am doing this to serve better the Church and the Colombian people"
Yup! Liberation theology is, as I recall, directly drawing on the Exodus account, Christ's fundamental option for the poor and the downtrodden in love, as well as St. Paul's notion that for freedom Christ has set us free; but, assuming liberation theologians haven't done so already—and I'm not nearly widely read enough to say—the above does dovetail with their work, definitely.