Reply #3: The Black Church of ML King & Catholic liberation theology did

[HamdenRice]

But it's not very much discussed. I wrote about this on the R/T forum once.

The basic idea in the Black Church of the King era, as pioneered by theologian Howard Thurman, was that the church needed to move away from looking at Jesus as an object of worship to a subject of his own story, which was the story of a revolutionary in an oppressed colonial society. It is said that King kept a copy of Thurman's "Jesus and the Disinherited" in his pocket at all times. It also meant that King could freely write that he did not believe in the supernatural (and therefore counter scientific) claims of Christianity. Liberation theology in South America and South Africa took similar turns.