Theology Bashing

Neoconservative Michael Novak, once a man who decried U.S. military and political encroachment in other lands, has written another apologia for U.S. policy in Latin America in the guise of a critique of Latin American liberation theology. Novak charges, with some justification, that certain liberationist writings are utopian, and he effectively criticizes the most extreme proponents of liberationism, such as José Miranda. There are a few (very few) liberationists, such as Miranda, who are communists. There are other liberationists who have advocated sweeping nationalization programs and rather uncritically adopted Marx’s labor theory of value. Novak cites examples of these arguments, offers an intelligent critique of state collect...