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Raymond Brown on liberation theology:

ADVOCACY CRITICISM is an umbrella title given to Liberationist, African American, Feminist, and related studies, because the proponents advocate that the results be used to change today's social, political, or religious situation. (A familiar maxim is that liberation of hte oppressed is the only optic through which Scripture should be read.). This approach is defended on the grounds that the Biblical writers and their writings were not without their own advocacy, e.g., written by men or church leaders and thus reflecting a patriarchal or ecclesiastical viewpoint.