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Liberation Theology

Theological Reflection

There are many steps in the liberation process, but before action can be taken to enact change one has to have a consciousness-raising experience. Other ways to say consciousness-raising experience are having a personal awakening or becoming aware of the ways one is oppressed or oppresses others. Having a realization is essential to the liberation process because it is this initial awareness of injustice that drive people to commit their lives to exposing and correcting societal wrongs.
If a person is not oppressed by injustice there is a slim chance of them speaking out against it, and no chance of them acting to correct it. For example, if I would have never attended Notre Dame College, I would not know how beneficial to women a single sex environment could be. I grew up in co-educational public school and was never a person who had a hard time talking in class. It seemed simple enough to speak out when I had something to contribute to the class,...

Posted by: Andres Cisneros

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