Peruvian theologian Gustavo Gutierrez, seen at a Vatican news conference in 2015, is dead at 96. (Alessandra Tarantino / Associated Press) Associated Press. Oct. 23, 2024 1:22 PM PT .

The Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez, Peruvian father of influential liberation theology, has died Peruvian theologian Gustavo Gutierrez, seen at a Vatican news conference in 2015, is dead at 96.

Remembering Gustavo Gutiérrez. Story by RNS • 2d (RNS) — On an ordinary weekday in the basement of a downtown church in Lima, Peru, in the late 1960s, a gathering of priests, ...

Peruvian theologian Gustavo Gutiérrez attends a news conference at the Vatican, May 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) ... This is Gutierrez’s lasting and glowing legacy.

Though his landmark book, A Theology of Liberation, came from an era of military dictatorships and guerrilla rebels, the real revolution Gustavo Gutiérrez, O.P., helped usher in was upending how ...

The overwhelming response in the United States to Dominican Fr. Gustavo Gutiérrez's death Oct. 22 at age 96 shows how the renowned Peruvian theologian's influence spread well beyond Latin America.

Gustavo Gutiérrez, the Peruvian priest and scholar who was regarded as the father of Latin American liberation theology, a far-reaching school of thought and action born of solidarity with poor ...

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian theologian the Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez, ... FILE - Peruvian theologian Gustavo Gutierrez speaks during a press conference at the Vatican, Tuesday, May 12, 2015.

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A towering figure in the Catholic theological landscape of the past century, the Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez, known as the father of liberation theology, died Tuesday night (Oct ...

LIMA, Peru — Peruvian theologian the Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez, the father of the social justice-centered liberation theology that the Vatican once criticized for its Marxist undercurrents, has died.

Gustavo Gutiérrez Merino was born in Lima on June 8, 1928, to a family of Spanish and Quechua descent. He was the second of three children. From ages 12 to 18, ...

Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez Merino, O.P., who is regarded as the father of liberation theology. (photo: Photo courtesy of Notre Dame/Matt Cashore.) Walter Sánchez Silva/CNA/ACI Prensa Nation October 23 ...