the victims. Justice asks, ‘Why are there so many victims?’ and then
seeks to change the causes of victimization, that is, the way the system
is structured” (Borg, 2003:201). One of the distinguishing marks of
liberation theology is that its commitment to economic, political, and
social freedom is rooted in a religious worldview in which the understanding
of what it means to be human is derived from a vision of the
nature of God.