What (actually) Is Liberation Theology? Dr. Jules Martinez

Theology in the Raw

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Jules Martinez-Olivieri is a theologian, practitioner, and author focusing on the intersection of social, pastoral, and systematic theology. Jules holds an MDiv and PHD from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He has taught in Puerto Rico, Guatemala, Perú, and the United States seminaries and universities. Martínez's ecclesial experiences include pastoral ministry, church planting, and community development. He is author of A Visible Witness: Christology, Liberation and Participation (Fortress). In this conversation, Jules gives a solid and thoughtful overview of liberation theology. What it is. What it isn't. The historical roots. The intersection between theology and economic theory. Why do many forms of liberation theology have Marxist leanings and are anti-capitalistic? Get 10% off your first order of Mitopure by Timeline! https://www.Timeline.com/theology USE CODE: Theology Support Theology in the Raw through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theologyintheraw

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0:00.0	Hey friends welcome back to another episode of theology around my guest today is he one or only
0:03.9	Dr. Jules Martinez Olivieri man I can't believe I got that right he's a theologian practitioner
0:10.1	an author focusing on the intersection of social, pastoral, and
0:13.4	systematic theology. He's got an MDive and a PhD from Trinity
0:16.8	Evangelical Divinity School has taught in Puerto Rico, Guatemala, Peru
0:21.0	in the United States, several different seminaries and universities,
0:24.6	including North Park Seminary.
0:28.8	Where else did he teach?
0:29.8	He taught, I taught at Teds, Trinity,
0:31.3	even Jungle Divinity School, and several other schools.
0:34.6	He brings his ecclesial experience, including pastoral ministry, church planning, and community
0:41.1	development to bear on his scholarship scholarship and he is the author of the book a
0:46.2	visible witness Christology liberation and participation in this in this podcast conversation I brought
0:50.9	jewels on to talk to help us understand what is liberation theology.
0:55.6	He is an expert in this area and I absolutely enjoyed this really engaging conversation.
1:01.6	This dude is brilliant and he's able to bring together
1:05.0	many different disciplines in a way that's both clear and compelling.
1:09.0	So please welcome to the show for the first time
1:11.0	the one and only Dr. Jules Martinez so we we hung out about a month ago in Denver I've known about you from a distance
1:29.1	and finally got a chance to hang out unexpectedly we're in this small room with a bunch of pastors together and also like, wait, you're like the jewels.
1:39.0	I'm like, you're the person.
1:45.9	Oh, that was loads of fun man, but we just got going. Okay, so just for an audience, like we were just
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