Born at the end of the 1960s – in a Latin America marked by military dictatorships, a rural exodus that gathered the poor in the peripheries of cities, the Cuban revolution’s impact on popular movements, and the renewal of the Catholic Church after the Second Vatican Council – Latin American ...
This article provides an overview of the relationship between theology and poverty in the thought of the Christian church over the centuries, as well as of the interaction between theological and non-theological approaches to the conceptual study of poverty. As biblical texts are authorit...