The liberation theology of Gustavo Gutiérrez

The philosopher and Catholic theologian Gustavo Gutiérrez offers rhetoricians a sophisticated transnational theory of liberation rooted in a hermeneutic of hope. Grounded in his experience with racism, classism, ableism, and positionality within the historical and geopolitical realities of South America, Gutiérrez’s writings articulate a novel theoretical and methodological orientation centered in humility, hope, solidarity, and social action and offers a corrective to the tendency to mistake theoretical fluency for consciousness, provincialism for expertise, and criticism for liberation. Gutiérrez offers rhetorical scholars a more ethical method and model for moving away from rhetoric’s end as professional criticism to rhetoric as a technology of radical hope

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