Movement or Moment? Assessing Liberation Theology Forty Years after Medellín

The Editors: Patrick Claffey worked as a missionary in Togo (1977-1986) and the Republic of Benin (1997-2002) where his pastoral work focused on linguistic research and rural development. He did postgraduate research at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (1999-2004), specialising in the area of African Christianity and socio-political development. He is currently Head of the Department of Mission Theology and Cultures, Milltown Institute, Dublin, and author of Christian Churches in Dahomey-Benin: A Study of their Socio-political Role (2007).
Joe Egan completed his undergraduate studies in science and theology at St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, before serving as a priest of the Society of African Missions in pastoral ministry in Nigeria (1980-1984). He resumed his theological studies in Rome, before returning to West Africa to teach theology in St Paul’s College-Seminary and at campuses in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Returning to Ireland in 1996, he lectured in theology at the Kimmage Mission Institute until its alliance with the Milltown Institute in 2003 where he now lectures in the Department of Mission Theology and Culture. He is author of The Godless Delusion (Peter Lang, 2009).