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Attending to the Needs of the World Because of the Recognition of Divinity Incarnate: A Response to Gustavo Gutiérrez’s “Faith as Freedom”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 March 2024

Neomi De Anda*
Affiliation:
University of Dayton, USA

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51 Gutiérrez, “Faith as Freedom,” 43.

52 Gutiérrez, “Faith as Freedom,” 31, 34, 39, 57.

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