liberationismn.

1869 Birmingham Daily Post 21 Apr. 7/2 Will Mr. Williams protest against this Dissenting screw, or does he still let Liberationism mean despotism?

1881 Church Times 1 July 437 The evil spirit of Liberationism will be for ever cast out.

1886 Q. Rev. 162 8 Democracy..acting in obedience to Liberationism.

1934 Times 31 Jan. 8/1 The Liberationism of The Radical Programme is pretty well extinct.

1939 L. Barnes Empire or Democracy? xxii. 251 Liberationism in the colonies and democracy at home are allied causes which sink or swim together.

1983 Jrnl. Law & Relig. 1 203 It is not inherently bound to the laissez-faire libertarianism of Adam Smith or to the radical liberationism of Karl Marx.

1985 J. R. Marcus Amer. Jewish Woman vii. 187 There are many men who are willing to grant equality to their wives; most Jewesses have rejected liberationism.

2005 J. Wall Moral Creativity iv. 164 Liberationism is sometimes critiqued..for lacking a substantive sense for what the liberation should be aimed toward.

1974 New Guard Dec. 29/1 A certain evolution, as it were, of theological thought had prepared the way for ‘liberationism’.

1979 Los Angeles Times 21 Jan. v. 2/4 North Americans might justly wonder why Catholics from this country [sc. Mexico] are so enthusiastic about ‘liberationism’ when it is a product of a church that has failed.

1995 G. Dorrien Soul in Society iv. 186 Latin American liberationism was a powerful and compelling form of social Christianity that Bennett hoped would inspire a revival of progressive Christian commitment in the United States.

2004 L. Stivers in R. H. Stone & R. L. Stivers Resistance & Theol. Ethics v. 77 Many churches consider social justice to be at the heart of Christianity and are deeply involved in these struggles. Liberationism tends to be the theology of such churches.