The theological "centers" are today recognizing that many of the breakthroughs in contemporary theology are happening outside their halls. The struggles of the poor and the marginal are giving birth to new ways of both living and understanding the faith. In ghettos and barrios, on reservations and inner-city streets a new meaning is being found in such traditional themes as Exodus and Exile, Cross and Resurrection, sin and salvation. In the late summer of 1975, representatives of both "majority" and "minority" theologies met in Detroit. There were Latin American and black theologians and sociologists, Chicanos, Asian-Americans, Puerto Ricans and Native Americans. There were women from every category. And there were white male North Americans. Most came as representatives of more than fifty study groups that had been meeting for months throughout the country in preparation for the conference. Unlike many theological gatherings, the conference itself was not a tidy, yawn-provoking affair. As the participants tried to explain their own analysis of the structures that oppressed them, others-speaking from their own experience-pointed out the inadequacies of the analysis being offered. The exchanges were always forthright, frequently impassioned, and sometimes even full of pain-a quality usually associated with growth. In this volume are gathered the major documents of the Detroit conference. Included are the papers circulated among the groups before the conference, correspondence reflecting the changes in the planning process, the principal statements given at the conference, excerpts from the panel discussions, and a post-conference interpretative essay by Gregory Baum.