The seminal text of the movement which was later characterized as liberation theology. This powerful, compassionate and radical book attracted criticism for mixing politics with religion, but was also welcomed as the option for the poor, placing the exploited and the economically downtrodden at the centre of a programme to redeem God's people from bondage.

A Theology of Liberation: Scm Classics Series

Christian Books & Bibles

Gutiérrez, Gustavo

Theology

SCM Press

Theology of Liberation (SCM Classics)

This Inspiring Book: We Drink from our Well: The Spiritual Journey of a people by Gustavo Gutierrez is a significant even in the development of liberation theology. Gustavo's aim is to practice Christian theology, to spread the Christian message, and to do so with the context of repression and oppression rather than in a vacuum.

We drink from our own wells: The spiritual journey of a people

Dove Communications

This is the credo and seminal text of the movement which was later characterized as liberation theology. The book burst upon the scene in the early seventies, and was swiftly acknowledged as a pioneering and prophetic approach to theology which famously made an option for the poor, placing the exploited, the alienated, and the economically wretched at the centre of a programme where "the oppressed and maimed and blind and lame" were prioritized at the expense of those who either maintained the status quo or who abused the structures of power for their own ends. This powerful, compassionate and radical book attracted criticism for daring to mix politics and religion in so explicit a manner, but was also welcomed by those who had the capacity to see that its agenda was nothing more nor less than to give "good news to the poor", and redeem God's people from bondage.

A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation

Orbis Books

History

The Latin American liberation theologian's profound reading of the book of Job.

On Job: God-Talk and the Suffering of the Innocent

World

Orbis

Religion & Spirituality

Religious Studies

Concepts of Mission

Essays by the renowned Peruvian theologian on theology and method, christology and ecclesiology, and religion and the social sciences.

The Truth Shall Make You Free: Confrontations

The God Of Life

"My desire is that this book may help readers to know more fully the God of biblical revelation and, as a result, to proclaim God as the God of life." Who is God? Where is God? How are we to speak of God? Gutierrez looks at these classic questions through a review of the Bible, and his answers challenge all Christians to a deepening of faith.

The God of Life

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. Las Casas, who arrived in the New World in 1502, underwent a conversion after witnessing the injustices inflicted on the Indians. Proclaiming that Jesus Christ was being crucified in the poor, he went on to spend a lifetime challenging the Church and the Empire of his day. His voluminous writings, along with those of his numerous adversaries, provide the substance for Gutierrez's reflections. What emerges is both a prophet of unquestioned courage and a theologian of remarkable depth, whose vision continues to set in relief the challenge of the gospel in a world of injustice. Not only did Las Casas point the way to such contemporary themes as the church's "preferential option for the poor" and the denunciation of "social sin," but he anticipated by centuries the principles of religious freedom, the rights of conscience, and the salvation of non-Christians, articulated at Vatican II. Through the poor of his time, Las Casas was moved to rediscover the radical challenge of the gospel. Gutierrez writes from a similar location and with a similar pathos. Far from a dry exercise in historical retrieval, Las Casas represents the author's most recent effort to articulate the Gospel of Jesus Christ in our own world and time, now as then marked by oppression as well as the struggle for liberation.

Las Casas: In Search of the Poor of Jesus Christ

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A Theology of Liberation: Scm Classics Series

Theology of Liberation (SCM Classics)

We drink from our own wells: The spiritual journey of a people

A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation

A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation

On Job: God-Talk and the Suffering of the Innocent

On Job: God-Talk and the Suffering of the Innocent

The Truth Shall Make You Free: Confrontations

The God of Life

Las Casas: In Search of the Poor of Jesus Christ