Miroslav Volf Research Articles

Work in the Spirit by Miroslav Volf

Work in the Spirit by Miroslav Volf

Doing theology in Hungary: Liberation or adaptation

Eastern European liberation theology (EELT) is a new branch on the young tree of liberation theologies. It is interesting that the existence of EELT was recognised almost simultaneously in at least three separate places. In the late 1980s Professor Jure Kristo launched a research project entitled 'Liberation Theology and the East European Experience'; I Professor Miroslav Volf published the paper 'Democracy and the crisis of the socialist project: toward a post-revolutionary theology of liberation,;2 and in 1988 I summarised in ten theses the main principles of EELT, to serve as the basis for a research project on the subject, which resulted in an anthology now in the process of publication with contributions from leading theologians in Eastern and Western Europe and experts in the USA and Canada. I identified the main features of EELT as the following: