From its beginnings, liberation theology has provoked a wide and diverse range of responses from a multitude of critics theological, methodological, political, ecclesiastical. Liberation Theology and Its Critics is a comprehensive and systematic explication of these diverse criticisms, as well as a reasoned and rigorous defense of liberation theology. McGovern states his aim thus: to understand better the world of Latin America and the culture and conditions which prompt a liberation theology while at the same time giving expression to some of the misgivings that many U.S. Americans experience when reading about liberation theology.