Way of the Cross: The Passion of Christ in the Americas

by Virgil Elizondo (Editor), Maria Jose Alvarez (Contribution by), Jose Oscar Beozzo (Contribution by), Leonardo Boff (Contribution by), Larry Boudreau (Contribution by)

Overview

When Christopher Columbus arrived in the New World in 1492, there began a new way of the cross, traced for five hundred years in the lives of the poor and oppressed peoples of the Americas.

These short meditations on the stations—by such figures as Gustavo Guiterrez, Enrique Dussel, Leonardo Boff, Helder Camara, Elsa Tamez, and Jon Sobrino—reflect on the passion of Christ against the background of conquest.

They write, as Virgil Elizondo says in his preface, to "invite our readers to take this journey with us, to share our suffering, to experience our crucifixion, and to taste in anticipation our Easter joy. We invite all—rich and poor, black and brown and white, clerics and lay people—to a profound conversion that will stimulate us to build a better world in the Americas, a world of the new humanity enjoying justice, freedom, and love."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780742513549
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	06/03/2002
Series:	Celebrating Faith: Explorations in Latino Spirituality and Theology
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.46(w) x 8.34(h) x 0.39(d)

About the Author

Virgil Elizondo, cited by Time magazine as one of the nation's spiritual innovators, is professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame and the Graduate Theological Union. In 2007 Rev. Elizondo was the recipient of the Catholic Theological Society of America's John Courtney Murray Award, for distinguished achievement in the study of theology.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Opening Meditation: Only My Death Can Express My Life
Chapter 2 Station I: Jesus Prays in the Garden of Olives
Chapter 3 Station II: Jesus is Betrayed by Judas and Arrested
Chapter 4 Station III: Jesus is Condemned to Death
Chapter 5 Station IV: Jesus is Denied by Peter
Chapter 6 Station V: Jesus is Handed Over to Pilate
Chapter 7 Station VI: Jesus is Scourged and Crowned with Thorns
Chapter 8 Station VII: Jesus Carries his Cross
Chapter 9 Station VIII: Simon of Cyrene Helps Jesus Carry His Cross
Chapter 10 Station IX: Jesus Meets the Women of Jerusalem
Chapter 11 Station X: Jesus is Crucified
Chapter 12 Station XI: Jesus Promises His Kingdom to the Good Thief
Chapter 13 Station XII: Jesus on the Cross Gives His Mother to His Disciple
Chapter 14 Station XIII: Jesus Dies on the Cross
Chapter 15 Station XIV: Jesus Is Laid in the Tomb
Chapter 16 Closing Meditation

Editorial Reviews

These are powerful meditations on the Way of the Cross which Jesus walks today. They are written by South American, Mexican, Basque, and Spanish teachers and theologians.

Kathleen M. Gorman

These penitential meditations reflect the Lenten theme of conversion, calling readers, in solidarity with those who are poor, sick, outcast and oppressed among us, to exchange our hearts of stone for hearts of flesh.....

World Parish

Introduced by the editor's own reflections as well as an opening meditation by G. Gutierrez and concluding with a short meditation by D. H. Camara, these meditations, illustrated with evocative woodcuts, vividly re-enact the Way of the Cross followed by the poor and oppressed in their present-day sufferings.

Religious Studies Review

The Stations of the Cross have a strong place in the piety of Latin American and Hispanic Catholics in the United States. This book uses that powerful devotion to reflect on the legacy of injustice and suffering, as well as the passages to new life, which have marked five hundred years of Christianity in the Americas.

The Bible Today

These are powerful meditations on the Way of the Cross which Jesus walks today. They are written by South American, Mexican, Basque, and Spanish teachers and theologians.--Kathleen M. Gorman, OSB

Introduced by the editor's own reflections as well as an opening meditation by G. Gutierrez and concluding with a short meditation by D. H. Camara, these meditations, illustrated with evocative woodcuts, vividly re-enact the Way of the Cross followed by the poor and oppressed in their present-day sufferings.--Religious Studies Review

The Stations of the Cross have a strong place in the piety of Latin American and Hispanic Catholics in the United States. This book uses that powerful devotion to reflect on the legacy of injustice and suffering, as well as the passages to new life, which have marked five hundred years of Christianity in the Americas.--The Bible Today

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