"This seminal work by the noted economist Franz Hinkelammert demonstrates that liberation theology is above all a theology of life which struggles against the marketplace reductionism of Franz's analysis of Marx's theory of fetishism and of Christian capitalist metaphysics. materialism inverts traditional understandings of Marx's critique of religion and Christian understandings of Marx. The end result is a challenge from Latin America to both our reading of Marx and of Christianity which must not go unheard."

Robert H. Craig, Professor of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts