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Jon Sobrino
A presentation of the truth of Jesus Christ from the viewpoint of liberation - from Jesus’s options for the poor, his confrontation with the powerful and the persecution and death…
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The essays in Sobrino’s latest collection bear on one of the most pressing signs of the times: the existence of a crucified people,the poor and oppressed of our world…
Jon Sobrino’s qualifications as a theologian and the importance of his theological work are universally acknowledged, but the orthodoxy of his work and the orthopraxis of the activity it sets…
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The topic of suffering and death has traditionally raised questions about the nature and existence of God. But for Sobrino the primary question is addressed to ourselves: Who are we…
The provocative title of these essays plays on a traditional Catholic slogan: ‘no salvation outside the church’. But as Jon Sobrino notes, salvation has many dimensions, both personal and social…
All theology is contextual; but not all contextual theology is good theology. Truly great theology must be rooted in a double context: it must be obedient to the living Jesus…
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First published 25 years ago, this revised edition has been enlarged with new essays as well as reflections on the recent beatification of Oscar Romero in May 2015.
A theological memoir by way of conversation by one of the foundational figures of liberation theology, Spanish Jesuit Jon Sobrino, who has spent his career in El Salvador.
Across nineteenth-century Europe, the emergence of constitutional and democratic nation-states was accompanied by intense conflict between Catholics and anti-clerical forces. At its peak, this conflict touched virtually every sphere of…
What Gutierrez has done for overall theological understanding, what Segundo has done for theological method, and what Miranda has done for biblical studies, Jon Sobrino has now done for Christology…
This collection of essays by a range of leading Catholic theologians assesses Sobrino’s contributions and his challenge in the areas of Christology, ecclesiology, moral theology, and spirituality.
O. Ernesto Valiente
This book argues that Jon Sobrino’s Christology offers the basis for a Christian spirituality of reconciliation that effectively overcomes conflict by attending to the demands of truth, justice, and forgiveness…
Sturla J. Stalsett
Is there a relationship between the suffering people of today and the crucified Jesus of Nazareth? Jon Sobrino claims that there is an intimate relation. The crucified Jesus Christ is…
Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Oxford, Wien. Is there a relationship between the suffering people of today and the crucified Jesus of Nazareth? Jon Sobrino claims that there is…
I. The globalizing evil of our actual world. Life and death on planet earth / Leonardo Boff – Some specific cases: 1. The situation of Africa / Elizabeth Amoah. 2…
Concilium has long been a household-name for cutting-edge critical and constructive theological thinking. Past contributors include leading Catholic scholars such as Hans Kung, Gregory Baum and Edward Schillebeeckx, and the…
Jon Sobrino,Ignacio Ellacuria
Drawn from the landmark reference work Mysterium Liberationis, this book highlights the core themes of systematic theology form the perspective of Latin American liberation theology.
1993 saw the publication in English of Mysterium Liberationis, a mammoth two-volume reference work on liberation theology originally published in Spanish. This abridged version contains the key themes of systematic…
Michel Simo Temgo Scj
Since its first use in the 1960s, the term ‘Preferential option for the poor’ has never stopped stirring up debates. This book examines its use in theology today. It turns…
Reason for returning to this theme / Jon Sobrino and Felix Winfred – General dimensions of globalization and its critics ; Ambiguities of globalization / E tienne Perrot ; Globalization…
Jon Sobrino,Paul Burns
Jon Sobrino continues the magisterial christology begun in Jesus the Liberator. In that book Sobrino examined the identity of Jesus in relation to his message, his interlocutors, and the conflict…
Jon Sobrino articulates a way to imbue the practice of liberation with spirituality - a dimension that critics often charge is lacking in liberation theology.
Donald E. Waltermire
This book examines the major christological elements in the theologies of Boff and Sobrino. The author analyzes the modern theological roots of liberation in Latin America from both a historical…
Robert Lassalle-Klein
The vital, definitive account of the lives and work of the Jesuit community of the University of Central America, their commitment to the poor, and the price they paid.
Die romische Notifikation gegen Jon Sobrino stellte einen neuen Hohepunkt in einem schon seit dreissig Jahren gefuhrten Kampf gegen einen der bedeutendsten Vertreter der Theologie der Befreiung und gegen diese…
Hubert Manohar Watson
This book is a significant inquiry into the on-going christological endeavour. With the background of the contemporary christological discussions both on a global level and in India the author proposes…
Covers topics such as: ‘The Holy Fathers of Latin America’; ‘If you were Indios - Bartolome de Las Casas’; ‘In Archbishop Romero, God passed through El Salvador’; and, ‘Latin American…
Introduction /Andre s Torres Queiruga, Luiz Carlos Susin, Jon Sobrino – Death and its religious management in human history /Karl-Heinz Ohlig – Dying and rising again in a popular tradition…
Pablo Galdamez
This book is the story of a Christian community of El Salvador. Like so many other Salvadoran communities, this one is small and is a community of the poor. It…
Javier Sobrino
Finalist at the 2019 Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards. Caged bird Finch will discover that the path to happiness is freedom, even if it comes with lurking dangers.
