Gustavo Gutiérrez, father of Liberation Theology, has died
The Peruvian priest, who emphasised the preferential option for the poor in his theology, has died at the age of 96
Participants at the 2017 Gathering at Boston College
23 October 2024
Today, 23 October 2024, the Peruvian Episcopal Conference, in a communiqué published by Vatican News, announced the death of the Peruvian priest and father of Liberation Theology, Gustavo Gutiérrez.
Ordained a priest in 1959, he studied at the Catholic University of Louvain and taught at the Pontifical University of Peru and other European and American universities. At the end of the Second Vatican Council, he raised the question of the preferential option for the poor in theology, stressing the dimension of real, everyday poverty. This culminated in his work Theology of Liberation, originally published in 1971.
Most recently, he participated in the Ibero-American Meeting of Theology (February 2017), which took place at the Jesuit Boston College and culminated in a Declaration, together with Professors Gabino Uríbarri, SJ and Carmen Márquez from the Faculty of Theology at Comillas.
On the other hand, Professor Ángel Cordovilla, from the Faculty of Theology at Comillas, was in charge of writing the presentation of the 19th edition of Gutiérrez's work Teología de la Liberación (Sígueme 2022).
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