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but as Albert Schweitzer launched a blistering critique of Eurocentric Christology the scholarship that happened in Germany and then latter in the United States was not Eurocentric but historical, literary, textual, and redaction criticism that worked hard, and successfully at being author/textual centric.

Pentecostalism and the kind of right wing Protestantism that is most prevalent in LA doesn't portend to replace Eurocentric Christology with an objective Christology but promote a derivative form of outdated Eurocentric right wing fundamentalist/Pentecostal Christology as an anti intellectual response to the scholarship which has taken place in Europe and the US but is not Eurocentric.

Of course Guiterez's Liberation Theology did confront the Eurocentric remnants of a status supported establishment Church, even as the scholarship at the Seminaries had already moved away from that approach.

Guiterez is, IMO, much more Biblically based but still approaches Scripture and Theology with an end game in mind.

The broad movement in Latin America is not for a more liberated Christian experience but a more contrived and reactionary form of Christianity that supports and envies the ruling classes, not challenge them.

Thomas Merton's unfortunate death at the President Hotel in Bangkok ended what was basically a one man mission to recapture the sacrament (if you will) of meditation that had been prevalent in centuries past but now lost to the modern Church. It would be difficult to find a more polar opposite to the loud screaming Pentecostalism that is happening in Latin America.