本文主旨是以特雷西：「宗教的最佳形式乃是在作為一種抗爭的力量」這一句話開始，探討其思想中關於「解放神學」的意義。從特雷西的基督神學的三大重要著作而言，包含了對基本神學與系統神學的詮釋外，在實踐神學的立場上也使用後現代思想的觀點作為批判的策略，強調在社會正義的實踐上，宗教應該發揮積極導正的力量，並抗拒由「罪」所產生自我安慰的幻覺與人為結構性的「惡」。以「苦難」和「他者」為起點的解放神學，其立場與特雷西之「作為抵抗形式的宗教」的基本態度是互相襯托彼此關於上帝之愛與其臨在，故「解放與拯救」即是基督宗教存在的目的，同時證成解放神學的合法性基礎。因此本文歸結特雷西之解放神學的觀點是：「他者」是實踐神學的起點，惟有面對「他者」才能如實地在他者臉上看見基督的面容。而作一個基督徒就是在群眾中活出基督的樣子。

This conception of “the religion, at their best, always bears extraordinary powers of resistance.” is about the problem of the “suffering” of human beings. In fact, the misunderstanding of the religion is always man-made and for some benefits to someone. For Tracy, religion is the positive power to change the situation of suffering. On one side, suffering is from original sin and ignorance, and on the other side is from the man-made sin including ideology and systematic-distortion. In Liberation Theology, the “otherness” is the most poverty-stricken populace and the starting point of liberation. “Suffering” is the beginning of religion and it must be based on the “hope of the future”. Then man participates in history and receives the grace of God.