Historians and liberation theologians cite the Appeal as an influential political and social document of the 19th century.

Biblical interpretations by liberation theologians and feminist scholars received scant comment from the Cardinal, but most of it was negative.

Yet it is that same "third way" that the liberation theologians previously rejected as a lie.

Given this, it is not surprising that liberation theologians do not have much faith in the ability of capitalist democracy to reform itself.

He poses some provocative questions for the liberation theologians.

The liberation theologians never did spell out in detail the mechanisms through which capitalism causes poverty.

But Father Gutierrez quickly acknowledges that liberation theologians now view the world in more complex terms than they did 20 years ago.

Experience with dictatorship, Father Gutierrez said, had made liberation theologians more appreciative of political rights.

A generation later, liberation theologians turned against Niebuhrian realism, which they judged to be too much a defense of the American political and religious establishment.

Most liberation theologians see Christian theological praxis mainly as lived and expressed in the life of community.