Liberation Theology has followed the political theologies and has privileged social sciences in developing its method. Through the socio-analytical mediation, theologians sought to contextualize the theological thought in order to redeem its relevance to the action in the reality. However, due to the fact that theology is historically linked to the biblical tradition, theology could not claim an interpretation of reality without passing through the sieve of the heritage of faith. With that, there was an epistemological hierarchy, in which social theory composed a pre-theological moment, or rather, the raw material for theological elaboration. In this paper, we analyze the thought of Leonardo Boff, an exponent of Liberation Theology, from the perspective of the relationship between theology and social theory.
