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      • In a 1988 book on the matter, The Silencing of Leonardo Boff: The Vatican and the Future of World Christianity, the theologian Harvey Cox suggested that the Vatican singled out Boff because it saw the “grass-roots religious energy” Boff represented as a threat to the church’s teaching authority.
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  3. www.bbc.co.uk › programmes › w3ct4xbwBBC World Service - Witness History, Silenced by the Vatican

    Jan 29, 2024 · In September 1984, the Brazilian theologian Leonardo Boff was summoned to Rome, facing accusations that his writing and teachings were "dangerous to the faith".

  4. leonardoboff.org › 2024/02/03 › this-liberationThis liberation theologian was once silenced ... - Leonardo Boff

    Feb 3, 2024 · In a 1988 book on the matter, The Silencing of Leonardo Boff: The Vatican and the Future of World Christianity, the theologian Harvey Cox suggested that the Vatican singled out Boff because it saw the “grass-roots religious energy” Boff represented as a threat to the church’s teaching authority.

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  6. time.com › archive › 6701161Religion: Boff Silenced - TIME

    May 20, 1985 · Last week the Vatican announced a disciplinary step against another scholar, Franciscan Father Leonardo Boff, 46, Brazil’s leading advocate of liberation theology.

  7. www.encyclopedia.com › leonardo-genezio-darci-boffLeonardo Genezio Darci Boff - Encyclopedia.com

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    Boff was born December 14, 1938, in Concordia, Santa Catarina, Brazil. His father was a teacher, and his mother was raised in a farming family. He was ordained a priest in 1964 and continued his education at the University of Munich, where he earned a doctorate in 1972. Bonaventura Kloppenburg, who was to become an opponent of liberation theology, ...

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    In 1987, Boff published the English-language version of The Maternal Face of God: The Feminine and Its Religious Expressions,in which he advocated the ordination of women as priests. Because the Roman Catholic Church believes that "the ordination of women is not possible" due to being bound by Christ's choice of men as apostles, Boff was again at t...

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    Catechism of the Catholic Church,Doubleday, 1995. "Liberation Theology," The Columbian Encyclopedia, Edition 6Columbian University Press, 2000.

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    America,November 23, 1996, p. 26; March 18, 2000, p. 4. Christian Century,November 1, 1978, pp. 1051-52; July 2-9, 1986, pp. 615-17. Commonweal,June 15, 1990, pp. 395-97. The Journal of Religion,January 1998, p. 134. Los Angeles Times Book Review,May 5, 1985, p. 6. The Nation,December 25, 1989, p. 778. National Catholic Reporter,September 8, 1995, ...

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  8. link.springer.com › referenceworkentry › 10Boff, Leonardo - SpringerLink

    Jan 1, 2019 · He studied in Munich in 1965–1970; his doctorate thesis on the church as sacrament, Die Kirche als Sakrament im Horizont der Welterfahrung (Boff 1972), envisages to legitimize a structural-functional understanding of the church with reference to the Second Vatican Council.

  9. www.cambridge.org › core › journalsThe Silencing of Leonardo Boff: The Vatican and the Future of ...

    The Silencing of Leonardo Boff: The Vatican and the Future of World Christianity. by Harvey Cox. London, Collins Religious Publishing, 1989. Pp. x + 208. £7.95. - Volume 44 Issue 1