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Once causes are determined, then there is talk of "social injustice" and the privileged begin to resist.

Gustavo Gutiérrez

Contemporary man has begun to lose his naiveté as... the deep causes of the situation in which he finds himself are becoming clearer. He realizes that to attack these deep causes is the indispensable prerequisite for radical change. And so he has gradually abandoned a simple reformist attitude regarding the existing social order, for, by its very shallowness this reformism perpetuates the existing system.

Gustavo Gutiérrez

Gustavo Gutiérrez

Gustavo Gutiérrez

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Born: June 8, 1928 (age 96)

Bio: Gustavo Gutiérrez Merino, O.P., is a Peruvian theologian and Dominican priest regarded as the founder of liberation theology. He holds the John Cardinal O'Hara Professorship of Theology at the University of Notre Dame.

Known for:

Essential writings (1996)
The God of life (1991)
The power of the poor in history (1983)

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