Sunday School with Franz Hinkelammert

The violent overreaction to 911 and the revolutions of the 1960s cannot be explained only with fear and politics Franz Hinkelammert a Germanborn liberation theologian economist and philosopher brings religion front and center to the discussion in a unique way The emptiness and senselessness felt by those at the margins of a freemarket Utopian ideology has been filled by an extreme millenarian Christianity and other fundamentalist religions that justify murder and torture as preemptive selfdefense In place of a suicidal theology of death based on defeating or marginalizing others Hinkelammert advocates an economics that promotes coexistence by looking towards liberation theology and the preferential option for the poor