Latin American Liberation Theology in the Wake of Capitalism’s Triumph

Postmodernity is best understood as the reflex of yet another mutation of capitalism and as such it is synonymous with what has been lauded as “the end of history” the unabashed victory of economic and political liberalism. Hence the question of liberation theology and postmodernity is one of opposition and resistance. Yet, as the work of Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault suggests, in the era of global capitalism, the ecclesiological innovations introduced by Latin American liberationists have proven insufficiently radical. A more radical ecclesiology, one that avoids the depoliticizing acids of modernity and posits the church as a public in its own right provides a glimpse of what comes after the end of history.