...a great struggle is shaping up between factions within Christianity, between the proponents of liberation theology, largely in the Catholic tradition, and the proponents of the largely Protestant view that Christianity is compatible with corporate capitalism.
I think it's risky, as a rule, to make that sort of generalization; for example, there's the Sojourners Community (http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=about_us.history) -- I may not agree with them theologically, but I think they're a clear and strong challenge to corporate Christianity, and they're strongly in the Protestant tradition.
Liberation theology has strong roots in South American Catholicism; but when it came to the States it found a home almost immediately in Protestantism -- particularly among people doing theology from the perspective of the poor, people of color, and women.
Conversely, Fast Food Christianity has its adherents across all denominational boundaries as well. Fast food religion as a whole is all too common; and nourishes about as well as fast food ever does.
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I think it's risky, as a rule, to make that sort of generalization; for example, there's the Sojourners Community (http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=about_us.history) -- I may not agree with them theologically, but I think they're a clear and strong challenge to corporate Christianity, and they're strongly in the Protestant tradition.
Liberation theology has strong roots in South American Catholicism; but when it came to the States it found a home almost immediately in Protestantism -- particularly among people doing theology from the perspective of the poor, people of color, and women.
Conversely, Fast Food Christianity has its adherents across all denominational boundaries as well. Fast food religion as a whole is all too common; and nourishes about as well as fast food ever does.