TRS 331 Theology and Human Rights in Latin America
The course introduces students to the Latin American theological tradition of human rights and its preferential option for the poor. It considers key theological figures within Latin America's Christian history from BartolomÈ de las Casas in the sixteenth century to Gustavo GutiÈrrez in the twentieth. Moral issues considered within a social context include slavery, conquest, poverty, neocolonialism, war, and immigration. Attention is devoted to the important, though sometimes deeply conflicted, role of the Church in giving voice to the poor through its liberating ethic of evangelization and its witness of solidarity.
Prerequisite
TRS 201 or TRS 201H or
HSTR 101