RELG 203 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Bartolomé De Las Casas, Desmond Tutu, Liberation Theology

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Relg-203 - chapter 6, the bible in the post-colonial world. Areas of grates growth for christianity = africa and asia. Bible plays an important role in the formation of new churches and new types of church life. It has been inspiration to develop forms of christianity closer to their own traditional cultures. Bible had a history of use bye colonizers that do not follow the values of liberty and respect it preaches. Spanish and portuguese were given the new-land by the pope and encouraged to convert its population. Bible was used as a mean of oppression in different places. Indigenous people sent a letter to pope john paul ii giving back the bible to europe, saying how it was a mean of oppression and how it did not do any good to the people. However, with or without bible, the colons actions were still oppressive, and catholic people knew it.

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