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He has also published in and been a member of the board of directors of the international journal, Concilium . He has studied medicine and literature (Peru), psychology and philosophy ( Louvain ), and obtained a doctorate at the Institut Catholique in Lyons. A founder of Liberation Theology , he was born in Peru , and spent much of his life living and working among the poor of Lima . Gutiérrez's groundbreaking work, A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, Salvation (1971), explains his notion of Christian poverty as an act of loving solidarity with the poor as well as a liberatory protest against poverty. According to Gutiérrez true “liberation” has three main dimensions: First, it involves political and social liberation, the elimination of the immediate causes of poverty and injustice. Second, liberation involves the emancipation of the poor, the marginalised, the downtrodden and the oppressed from all “those things that limit their capacity to develop themselves freely and in dignity”. Third, Liberation Theology involves liberation from selfishness and sin, a re-establishment of a relationship with God and with other people. MAJOR PUBLICATIONS (translated from Spanish
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