3. The continued viability of Liberation Theology depends on the recognition and successful negotiation of one or a number of ‘paradigm shifts’ (de Schrijver, 1998). Liberation Theology has become a ‘theological classic’ in the sense used by David Tracy. With this comes the danger of appropriation, as the lan- guage and concepts of Liberation Theology become common currency, even in the halls of the Vatican and the International Monetary Fund. Such appropriation runs the danger of Liber- ation Theology’s insights being domesticated. More generally, one of the key non-theological quandaries is whether and to what extent it should adapt to a transformed post-Marxist con- text, including an acceptance, however grudging, of market capitalism. (We may note, specifically, the shift from outright denunciation of the market to a critique of ‘idolisation’ of the market in the writings of Hugo Assmann).