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God's preferential option for the poor and oppressed, with salvation as liberation from all forms of oppression.
Key question: “How does the Gospel liberate the oppressed and challenge unjust structures in society?”
23,269 sermon illustrations through the Liberation Theology lens
11/11 (1675): Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).
9/2 (1192): The Treaty of Jaffa is signed between Richard I of England and Saladin, leading to the end of the Third Crusade.
7/20 (1968): The first International Special Olympics Summer Games are held at Soldier Field in Chicago, with about 1,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities.
11/1 (1848): In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, Boston Female Medical School (which later merged with the Boston University School of Medicine), opens.
12/25 (1000): The foundation of the Kingdom of Hungary: Hungary is established as a Christian kingdom by Stephen I of Hungary.
12/25 (820): Eastern Emperor Leo V is murdered in a church of the Great Palace of Constantinople by followers of Michael II.
4/1 (2001): Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, the first contemporary country to allow it.
10/12 (2019): Eliud Kipchoge from Kenya becomes the first person to run a marathon in less than two hours with a time of 1:59:40 in Vienna.
11/9 (1851): Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.
2/14 (1849): In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first serving President of the United States to have his photograph taken.