The Poor and the Church in Latin America

For over a decade now the most challenging theological ideas and the most original pastoral strategies have been coming from Africa, Asia and Latin America. The Churches of the Third World are also increasingly challenging the political assumptions of Christians in the developed world. The Third World Theology series is designed to make available to a wider audience examples of this important movement in Christian thought. Why has the Latin American Church made its 'option for the poor'? A leading 'liberation theologian' here analyses the impact of the poor on the Church in Latin America, not only on its organisation, but more profoundly, on its understanding of itself and of God.