Latin American Liberation Theology and Eastern Orthodox Social Ethics

by Philip LeMasters

How should Christians respond to situations of poverty and social injustice? Proponents of Latin American liberation theology and teachers of Eastern Orthodoxy typically frame their answers in very different ways.

Philip LeMasters

The V. Rev. Philip LeMasters, Ph.D., is the pastor of St. Luke Orthodox Church and professor of religion and director of the honors program at McMurry University in Abilene, Texas. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary. Fr. Philip is the author of Toward a Eucharistic Vision of Church, Family, Marriage, and Sex (Light & Life Publishing Company, 2004), The Goodness of God’s Creation (Regina Orthodox Press, 2008), and The Forgotten Faith: Ancient Insights From Eastern Christianity for Contemporary Believers (Cascade Books, 2014), as well as other books, articles, and reviews on Christian theology and ethics.

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