Juan Carlos Scannone, SJ (2 September 1931 – 27 November 2019), was an Argentine

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Jesuit priest. Scannone entered the Society of Jesus in 1949. His academic career began in 1956 when he completed his studies of philosophy at the Philosophical and Theological Faculty of San Miguel in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. He obtained a doctorate in theology with a thesis written in Innsbruck, directed by

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, and one in philosophy with a dissertation on

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, presented at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany. Scannone was an instructor in the Jesuit Seminary of San Miguel in Argentina. There, he was one of the main teachers of

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, who later became Pope Francis. Arguably, few theologians influenced Francis as much as Scannone. The pope refer to Scannone's work in his encyclical letter of 2015, ''

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''. Scannone was also the leading Argentine formulator of the theology of the people, which is somewhat related to the philosophy and theology of liberation, or

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. The principles of the theology of the people articulate a strong embrace of

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, coupled with locally initiated non-

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ways to help the poor. This Argentine current of liberation theology, which greatly influenced Bergoglio, has other exponents such as and .

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DePaul University speaker bio of Scannone
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