The Poor as Symptom: A Lacanian Reading of the Option for the Poor
Latin American liberation theology contributed perhaps the most significant theological contribution of the twentieth century in the “preferential option for the poor”. This insight has been an uneasy call to conscience for the magisterial Catholic Church, which has often buttressed the positions of...
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2023
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Religions
Year: 2023, Volume: 14, Issue: 5 |
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B Emmanuel Levinas B Jacques Lacan B option for the poor B Ideology |
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