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Work #865 · Late

The God of Life

Gustavo Gutiérrez
1989 (Spanish El Dios de la vida); 1991 (English) · Spanish
Liberation-theological treatise · Late-twentieth-century Latin American liberation theology

Gutiérrez's 1991 mature theology of the living God of liberation

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Attribute The God of Life (Late)
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Infinite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Infinite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Partial
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Both
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Theistic
Observer · Moral Authority Scripture
Observer · Theological Method
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.

Time

The God of Life

The salvation-historical time of the living God.

Space

The God of Life

The Exodus and Latin American base communities.

Matter

The God of Life

The embodied poor and the embodied Christ.

Observer

The God of Life

The liberation-theologian.

Energy

The God of Life

Energies of life and liberation.

Information

The God of Life

The biblical revelation of the God of life.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

The God of Life

Gutiérrez's God of Life: mature articulation of liberation theology; central reference for the spirituality of liberation.