Liberation Theology LensLines™

From the underside of history, it names oppression as sin and calls the Church to liberating praxis.

71:1-6 declares God’s preferential option for the oppressed—salvation as concrete liberation—today, not someday.

1:1, 10-20 comforts the crushed: God is not distant from your struggle; He is present as deliverer.

comforts the crushed: God is not distant from your struggle; He is present as deliverer.

Timothy 6:6-19 comforts the crushed: God is not distant from your struggle; He is present as deliverer.

80:1-2, 8-19 confronts comfortable religion—God sides with the exploited, not the exploiters—today, not someday.

18:9-14 declares God’s preferential option for the oppressed—salvation as concrete liberation—today, not someday.

Colossians 3:1-11 sounds political, remember: oppression is already political—today, not someday.

From the underside of history, it doesn’t flatter us—names oppression as sin and calls the Church to liberating praxis.

2 Timothy 2:8-15, grace is not abstract; it breaks chains and confronts unjust power.

declares God’s preferential option for the oppressed—salvation as concrete liberation—today, not someday.

From the underside of history, it doesn’t flatter us—names oppression as sin and calls the Church to liberating praxis.

Jeremiah 4:11-12, 22-28 sounds political, remember: oppression is already political—today, not someday.

12:32-40 comforts the crushed: God is not distant from your struggle; He is present as deliverer.

confronts comfortable religion—God sides with the exploited, not the exploiters—today, not someday.

Colossians 2:6-15 sounds political, remember: oppression is already political—today, not someday.

exposes pious excuses—if faith never costs power, it’s probably not liberation—today, not someday.

exposes pious excuses—if faith never costs power, it’s probably not liberation—today, not someday.

137 confronts comfortable religion—God sides with the exploited, not the exploiters—today, not someday.

In Psalm 97, grace is not abstract; it breaks chains and confronts unjust power—today, not someday.

From the underside of history, it meets us gently—names oppression as sin and calls the Church to liberating praxis.

declares God’s preferential option for the oppressed—salvation as concrete liberation—today, not someday.

In Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31, grace is not abstract; it breaks chains and confronts unjust power.

137 declares God’s preferential option for the oppressed—salvation as concrete liberation—today, not someday.