Rubem Alves — Liberation Theology

In the chronology

3 events in the chronology involve this figure.

Year	Date	Event
1961	1961-07	ISAL founded — Iglesia y Sociedad en América Latina (ISAL) — the radicalizing Protestant 'church and society' network (Rubem Alves, Richard Shaull, José Míguez Bonino) that was a precursor stream to liberation theology — grew out of the First Latin American Consultation on Church and Society, held at Huampaní, Peru, in July 1961 and backed by the World Council of Churches; the consultation created the Junta Latinoamericana de Iglesia y Sociedad. Scholarship places the founding consultation at Huampaní; the occasional 'Huancayo' attribution is unsupported.^{[5] [6]}
1969	1969	Rubem Alves, 'A Theology of Human Hope' — Alves's Princeton dissertation, defended in 1968 as 'Towards a Theology of Liberation', was published in 1969 as 'A Theology of Human Hope'; his publisher required the retitling for the US market. Harvey Cox later observed that but for the change, Alves rather than Gutiérrez might be remembered as the 'father of liberation theology'.^{[2] [3] [4]}
2014	2014-07-19	Death of Rubem Alves — Rubem Alves died on 19 July 2014 in Campinas, aged 80. Remembered by the World Council of Churches as a foundational thinker of Latin American liberation theology, he had participated in ISAL and been sought by the dictatorship; his later output spanned educational theory, chronicles, children's books and psychotherapy.^{[1] [7] [5]}