"[T]here would be no incongruity in claiming that, with respect to particular epistemic projects, some social locations and standpoints confer epistemic advantage. In particular, some standpoints have the especially salient advantage that they put the critically conscious knower in a position to grasp the effects of power relations on their own understanding and that of others."
Alison Wylie
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| From the cover of Gustavo Gutierrez' A Theology of Liberation |
"The King will reply, 'Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.'"
-Matthew 25:40
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"God is disclosed in the historical 'praxis' of liberation. It is the situation, and our passionate and reflective involvement in it, which mediates the Word of God. Today that Word is mediated through the cries of the poor and the oppressed."
-Gustavo Gutierrez
The revelation of God as mediated through the cries of of the poor and oppressed offers a new image of the crucifix and a bolder understanding of Christ.
"Where is the wise man? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe . . . We preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called . . . the power of God and the wisdom of God."
-1 Corinthians 1:20-24
"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. . . ."
-Matthew 5:3
"As soon as a religion begins to dominate, it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
And the poor are one of the marginalized groups.
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