Liberation theology

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DRAMA OF LIBERATION

“The people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God.”

Exodus 2:23-25

And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. God saw the people of Israel—and God knew.

Exodus 2:23-25

The Lord said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey…’

Exodus 3:7-8

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"The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free’

Luke 4:18-20

Jesus the Liberator!

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Cry of the oppressed

Awake, Lord! Why do you sleep? Rouse yourself! Do not reject us forever. Why do you hide your face and forget our misery and oppression?

We are brought down to the dust; our bodies cling to the ground. Rise up and help us; rescue us because of your unfailing love.

Psalm 44:23–26 (NIV)

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Cry of the oppressed The Love of the Liberator

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Cry of the oppressed The Love of the Liberator The Power of the Liberator