Böcker av Gustavo Gutierrez

US$32.00 RELIGION / Christian Theology / Liberation Gustavo Gutiérrez A THEOLOGY OF LIBERATION History, Politics, and Salvation 50th Anniversary Edition One of Christianity Today's Top 100 Books of the Twentieth Century One of Church Times (UK) Top 100 Christian Books of All Time "One of the best books of its kind ever written."--America "The movement's most influential text."--Time ORBIS LOGO ISBN 978-1-62698-541-4 Cover photo: Joseph Vail, MM; sculpture by Peruvian artist Edilberto Merida Cover design: Ponie Sheehan

In this passionate work, the pioneering author of 'A Theology of Liberation' delves into the life, thought, and contemporary meaning of Bartolome de Las Casas, sixteenth-century Dominican priest, prophet, and Defender of the Indians" in the New World. Writing against the backdrop of the fifth centenary of the conquest of the Americas, Gutierrez seeks in the remarkable figure of Las Casas the roots of a different history and a gospel uncontaminated by force and exploitation.

Renowned Peruvian theologian Gustavo Gutierrez opens up the riches of scriptures as they unfold through the liturgical year. Covering all three cycles (A, B and C), Gutierrez offers penetrating reflections on each of the Sunday lectionary readings. He constantly stresses the biblical themes of liberation and love, and points to the challenges inherent in living the life of faith in our own times.This book will fill a long-felt need, at a time when the authority and relevance of preaching is coming under the spotlight. It combines, uniquely, the profound thinking of a theological giant with the accessibility of a handbook. This combination will make it a key resource for anyone who preaches on Sundays, for anyone who wishes to live the liturgical year through their own scriptural reading, and for anyone who has ever asked themselves how the gospels can be good news for our troubled world today.

This book offers a selection of representative texts which should enable readers to perceive the whole breadth and depth of Gutierrez's challenge to late twentieth-century Christians.

The publication of the first edition in 1984 was a significant event in the development of liberation theology.

For many years the theology of liberation, which emerged from Latin America in the 1970s, was viewed with suspicion and even hostility in Rome. In this historic exchange, Father Gustavo Gutiérrez, one of the original architects of liberation theology, and Cardinal Gerhard Müller, current Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, offer a new and positive chapter. Cardinal Müller, who as a student of Gutiérrez spent many summers working in Peru, writes with deep feeling and conviction about the contributions of liberation theology to church teaching--particularly in its articulation of the preferential option for the poor. In his own contribution here, Gutiérrez lays out the essential ideas of liberation theology, its ecclesial location, and its fresh enunciation of the gospel for our time.

Revealing the scriptures as they unfold through the liturgical year, this text covers all three cycles, A, B and C. It offers reflections on each of the Sunday lectionary readings, stresses the biblical themes of liberation and love, and points out the challenges of living the faith.

This is the credo and seminal text of the movement which was later characterized as liberation theology. This powerful, compassionate and radical book attracted criticism for daring to mix politics and religion in so daring a manner.