The Theology of Struggle is a genuinely popular Fillipino theology
rooted in the history and culture of a people who have endured colonial
oppression at the hands of Spain, North America, and Japan, as well as
neo-colonialism and home grown dictatorship. Because Christianity has
played a role in assisting the history of oppression in the
Phillippines, a theology of struggle must include a ""struggle in
theology,"" to wrest Christian symbols from the hands of the oppressors
and return them to the poor. This theology, which is otherwise expressed
in articles, poems, art, and action, receives its first systematic
treatment in Toward a Theology of Struggle. In Part On, Fernandez
establishes the historical and cultural context out of which the
Theology of Struggle has emerged. Part Two represents Fernandez's own
constructive work, in which he shows how a theology of struggle must
address the quest for identity and peoplehood. In Part Three, Fernandez
explores the question of theological method, outlining the areas of
convergence and distinction between the Theology of struggle and other
Third World theologies, as well as setting forth the distinctive
challenge that this theology of the Philippines poses to the authority
and dominance of Western theology as a whole.