Understanding Liberation Theology Daniel Levine's popular voices in Latin American Catholicism fill our minds with age-old questions and yet provide us with the information necessary to answer those questions. Throughout his writings, although obviously most concentrated in chapter two, Levine reveals the history and value of what is called liberation theology. Although Levine details the uses and importance of this lesser-known religious vision, I believe he does a better job of allowing us to fully understand the central ideas, beliefs, methods, and history of liberation theology. Levine states, “Liberation theology comes together as a theory and a set of guidelines for action on the problems of poverty and the poor,” (p. 39). We must understand that this perspective did not evolve out of thin air, but came from the Latin American response to Catholicism and its changes after the Second Vatican Council. Rarely in American society do we, as citizens wealthy enough to support families, feel that the perspective of the lower class is meaningful. This statement may be blunt; yet we, as a society of levels, stages or classes, show the poor as they did hundreds of years ago. Liberation theology, however, “values ​​solidarity and shared experience and identifies strongly with people whose loves are distorted by oppressive structures” (p. 39). The theologians explain that they insist on the need to see religious issues through the eyes of the poor, to experience what they experience and to "coexist with them in ways that undermine the long-established social and cultural distances between the Church and the average believer, » (p. 40). Evidently concern for the poor is not new in the Christian community. What I expressed before is that our society does not consider them of the same importance or value. Of course, we pity the poor, we create charities , we promote programs to help the needy and create shelters for the homeless. However, what distinguishes liberation theology is the way in which the poor have a role, a promoted and distinct role, in the church, in politics and in society understanding liberation theology we must grasp the main themes. The four themes that form the basis of liberation theology are: "... an interest in history and historical change, secondly the return to biblical sources, thirdly place an emphasis on the poor and a related emphasis on doing theology in a way that enhances the value of liberation theology." the daily experience and intuition of average people, and finally CLONE and the complex relationships with Marxism" (page.