The objective of this research is to examine the theological ideas and moral vision ofJean-Bertrand Aristide, and to explore how his theology (and theological hermeneutics andethics) has influenced his politics of solidarity and social activism on behalf of the oppressedand the poor in Haiti in particular, and the wretched of the earth, in general. Through theuse of the postcolonial, decolonial, and Liberation Theology paradigms as hermeneuticaland theoretical methods of investigation, the project seeks to answer a threefold question:what is the relationship between theology and social activism and transformation in the thought and writings of Jean-Bertrand Aristide?