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Gustavo Gutiérrez
Gustavo Gutiérrez was a Peruvian Catholic priest and theologian, regarded as the founder of liberation theology. His book A Theology of Liberation, published in Spanish in 1971, argued that the church must stand with the poor and confront social injustice. Long a pastor in a poor district of Lima, he influenced Catholic thinking across Latin America and beyond, and he joined the Dominican order in 2001.
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