Ivan Petrella

Ivan Petrella (born November 8, 1969) is an Argentine social theorist and liberation theologian.

[1] He was an associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida and co-executive editor of the “Reclaiming Liberation Theology” book series with SCM Press.

[2] As an Argentine liberation theologian that is also agnostic,[3] Petrella's scholarship cuts across religious studies departments and divinity schools, the United States and Latin America, and theology and the social sciences.

He also argues that disciplines like economics, political science, and law need to be transformed in light of liberation theology's preferential option for the poor and envision undercover liberation theologians posing as social scientists to engage that task: “Here the liberation theologian need not carry the label ‘theologian’ and works best under a different disciplinary guise.

Previously he was an elected representative in the City of Buenos Aires state legislature.