Gustavo Gutierrez: Essential Writings

by James B. Nickoloff

Overview

Drawing from his many published books as well as little-known essays and several pieces translated specially for this volume, this book provides an overview and an entry into the mind of a great modern Christian thinker. Editor James B. Nickoloff situates Gutierrez within the history of Christian thought and the social history of Latin America, and shows, ultimately, that Gutierrez's challenge extends to all Christians: "With the believing poor, and in their name, [Gutierrez] has challenged Christians paralyzed by the fear of the cross ... to stand with 'those robbed of life and well-being.' And thus he invites the fearful among us to venture forth ... and find courage and new life for ourselves by giving life to the 'nobodies' of history."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781608331215
Publisher:	Orbis
Publication date:	05/17/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Gustavo Gutierrez, the "father of liberation theology," is a Peruvian priest of Indian descent. Gutierrez studied theology in Europe before returning to his native Lima to pen the epochal volume A Theology of Liberation, which first enunciated principles of this global theological movement: God's option for the poor, theology from the underside, the power of the poor in history, the importance of social analysis, the primacy of practice over theory.

James B. Nickoloff, who studied and worked with Gutierrez for two years, is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts.