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Option for the poor

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The article, while fruitful in its topic, fails to add the critical secondary sources needed to describe this theological movement.

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The intro portion fails to address what the "option for the poor" entails, instead describing where the concept fits within religious thinking. I think that the Second Vatican Council's conclusions on poverty should be emphasized given its importance and timing within the liberation theology movement during the Cold War era. A significant portion of the "Liberation theology debate" sub-section refers to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) and his thoughts on the subject, failing to bring other major catholic leaders into the discussion. Just three popes are referenced in the body of the article with two of them relegated to short quotes. As a whole, the article is missing a discussion of the "option for the poor" from the perspective of other religious thinkers and lower-class people. The article mentions the phrase beginning in 1968, but does not reference its immediate effect; much of the analysis is based on 1980s-1990s theology. The end of the article references the phrase in context with global warming; could be considered something of a non-sequitur given the aim of the article.