Blood and Ink; Ignacio Ellacuria, Jon Sobrino, and the Jesuit Martyrs of the University of Central America
A Jesuit community's conversion to the poor, and the price they paid. In November 1989, six members of the Jesuit community of the University of Central America in San Salvador, including the rector, Igancio Ellacuria, were massacred by government troops. Twenty-five years later, this book provides the definitive account of the path that led to that fateful day, focusing on the Jesuits' prophetic option for the poor, their role in the renewal of the Salvadoran church and society, and the critical steps that caused them as Archbishop Romero would put it, to "share the same fate as the poor." Drawing on newly available archival materials and extensive interviews, Robert Lassalle-Klein gives special attention to the theological contribution of Ellacuria and Jon Sobrino, who survived the massacre, and the emergence among the community of a spirituality that recognized the risen Christ in what Ellacuria called "the crucified people of El Salvador."
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Blood and Ink; Ignacio Ellacuria, Jon Sobrino, and the Jesuit Martyrs of the University of Central America
A Jesuit community's conversion to the poor, and the price they paid. In November 1989, six members of the Jesuit community of the University of Central America in San Salvador, including the rector, Igancio Ellacuria, were massacred by government troops. Twenty-five years later, this book provides the definitive account of the path that led to that fateful day, focusing on the Jesuits' prophetic option for the poor, their role in the renewal of the Salvadoran church and society, and the critical steps that caused them as Archbishop Romero would put it, to "share the same fate as the poor." Drawing on newly available archival materials and extensive interviews, Robert Lassalle-Klein gives special attention to the theological contribution of Ellacuria and Jon Sobrino, who survived the massacre, and the emergence among the community of a spirituality that recognized the risen Christ in what Ellacuria called "the crucified people of El Salvador."
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Blood and Ink; Ignacio Ellacuria, Jon Sobrino, and the Jesuit Martyrs of the University of Central America

Blood and Ink; Ignacio Ellacuria, Jon Sobrino, and the Jesuit Martyrs of the University of Central America

by Robert Lassalle-Klein
Blood and Ink; Ignacio Ellacuria, Jon Sobrino, and the Jesuit Martyrs of the University of Central America

Blood and Ink; Ignacio Ellacuria, Jon Sobrino, and the Jesuit Martyrs of the University of Central America

by Robert Lassalle-Klein

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A Jesuit community's conversion to the poor, and the price they paid. In November 1989, six members of the Jesuit community of the University of Central America in San Salvador, including the rector, Igancio Ellacuria, were massacred by government troops. Twenty-five years later, this book provides the definitive account of the path that led to that fateful day, focusing on the Jesuits' prophetic option for the poor, their role in the renewal of the Salvadoran church and society, and the critical steps that caused them as Archbishop Romero would put it, to "share the same fate as the poor." Drawing on newly available archival materials and extensive interviews, Robert Lassalle-Klein gives special attention to the theological contribution of Ellacuria and Jon Sobrino, who survived the massacre, and the emergence among the community of a spirituality that recognized the risen Christ in what Ellacuria called "the crucified people of El Salvador."

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ISBN-13: 9781626980631
Publisher: Orbis Books
Publication date: 06/10/2014
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Robert Lassalle-Klein is professor of religious studies and philosophy at Holy Names University in Oakland, California. He is the editor of Jesus of Galilee: Contextual Christology for the 21st Century, and co-editor (with Kevin Burke) of Love that Produces Hope: The Thought of Ignacio Ellacuria.

Table of Contents

Foreword: With Hope and Gratitude Jon Sobrino xiii

Acknowledgments xv

Introduction: "It's Them or Us!" xvii

Part I Awakening to God in the Historical Reality of the People of El Salvador: Archbishop Romero's Prophecy and the Birth of a New Kind of University

1 Grasping the Historical Reality of El Salvador (1965-1969): From Development to the Option for the Poor 3

Discontent with the Unfulfilled Promises of Development 4

The Latin American Church Charts Its Own Path: A Deafening Cry 14

The Conversion of the Central American Jesuits to the Preferential Option for the Poor 23

2 Taking Responsibility for the Historical Reality of El Salvador (1969-1979): From the Option for the Poor to the VGA Coup 53

Toward a University That Serves Its People: The Presidency of Fr. Luis Achaerandio (1969-1974) and the Speech to the Inter-American Bank 56

Consolidating the New Idea of the University: The Presidency of Dr. Roman Mayorga (1975-1979) 85

The Church in Defense of Civil Society 101

3 Transforming the Historical Reality of El Salvador (1979-1989): From the Agency of the Elite to the Heart of the People 121

Battle for the Soul of Civil Society; State-Sponsored Violence versus the Voice of Prophecy 121

Gradual Emergence of a New Kind of Christian University 157

Role of the UCA in the Life, Death, and Resurrection of Salvadoran Civil Society 167

Conclusion 180

Part II Doing Theology with the Crucified People and those Who Love Them: Ignacio Ellacuru's Fundamental Theology

Introduction 185

4 The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius: Latin America's Retreat Master, Miguel Elizondo, S.J. 188

A Daring Challenge 190

Theologian of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius 195

5 Ellacuría's Philosophy of Historical Reality: Xavier Xubiri's Sentient Intelligence and Neuroscience 201

Mentor and Student 201

Zubiri's Critique of the Evasion of Reality in the West 204

Free to Get Real: Sentient Intelligence and the Primacy of Reality 212

Ellacurias Christian (or Theological) Historical Realism: Innovations 219

6 Gloria Dei, Vivens Pauper: Archbishop Oscar Romero 228

"In Santiago de María I Ran into Suffering" (1970-1977) 230

Monserior Romero: Sent by God to Save His People (1977-1930) 243

7 Mysterium Salutis: Karl Rahner 253

Studies with the Great Theologian of the Council 254

Historical Reality and Holy Mystery 257

The Crucified People: Scandal and Sign of Salvation 273

Conclusion 284

Part III Bearing the Spirit to a Suffering World: The Contextual Christology of Jon Sobrino and Ignacio Ellacuría

Introduction 285

8 Mysterium Liberationis: The Christian Historical Realism of Ignacio Ellacuría 289

Introduction: Liberation and the Historicity of Salvation 289

History and Salvation: Two Aspects of a Larger Whole 291

Salvation Historv Is a Salvation in History 293

The Historical Reality of Jesus 301

Historical Soteriology and the Crucified People 303

9 Analogatum Princeps of the Historical Reality of Jesus: The Crucified People of El Salvador 309

Introduction 309

The Historical Reality of Jesus as Starting Point for Latin American "Saving History" Christology 313

"Rising Up" from the Historical Reality of Jesus to the Christ of Faith 324

"Raising Up" Living Signs to the Resurrection: "An Act Proper to God Himself" 333

Conclusion 335

Conclusion: Living Signs of the Resurrection: The Trinitarian Spirituality of the UCA Martyrs

Where Have We Been? 337

Whom Did They See? 340

Their Christological Spirituality: Recognizing Jesus in the Crucified People 342

Companions of Jesus: Bearers of Jesus' Holy Spirit to the People of El Salvador 346

An Easter Event: Sacrament of the Mystery of God Transforming the Historical Reality of the Americas 354

Index 358

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