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Paulo Freire and the Marxist Transformation of the Church

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The Only Way to Understand the Church Is Concretely

The church cannot even be understood theologically, according to Fries. He says it cannot avoid making a choice. It can't be neutral. And therefore, we in turn cannot discuss the church's role abstractly or metaphysically. So your seminaries have to use the pedagogy of the oppressed to reinterpret scripture and theology so that they're in line with Marxist analysis.

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