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Brazilian theologian

Clodovis Boff (Portuguese pronunciation:[ˈklɔdɔvizˈbɔf]; born 1944) is a Brazilian Catholic theologian, philosopher, writer and professor.

Biography

Clodovis Boff is grandson of Italian immigrants who arrived from Veneto region to Rio Grande do Sul in the late nineteenth century. He did his primary and secondary studies in Concordia, Rio Negro and Agudos.

Boff studied philosophy in Mogi das Cruzes and obtained a doctorate in theology at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. As early as 1986 Clodovis Boff declared that the acquisition of Marxist categories have performed in the early stages of liberation theology an attitude of carelessness and exaggeration.^[1] Currently, Clodovis Boff and his brother Leonardo Boff are confronted ideologically due to his brother's position in relation to ecclesiastical institutions.

Leonardo still considering that option for the poor is "a truly evangelical option to have a life