In Search of Christ in Latin America
eBook - ePub

In Search of Christ in Latin America

From Colonial Image to Liberating Savior

  1. 369 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

In Search of Christ in Latin America

From Colonial Image to Liberating Savior

About this book

  • Ten Outstanding Books in Mission Studies, World Christianity and Intercultural Theology for 2019 — International Bulletin of Mission Research (IBMR)

Noted theologian Samuel Escobar offers a magisterial survey andstudy of Christology in Latin America. Starting with the first Spanish influence and moving through popular religiosity and liberationist themes in Catholic and Protestant thought of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, In Search of Christin Latin America culminates in an important description of the work of the Latin American Theological Fraternity (FTL). Escobar chronologically traces the journey of Latin American Christology and describes the milestones along the way toward arich understanding of the spiritual reality and powerful message of Jesus.IVP Academic is pleased to release this important work, originally published in Spanish as En busca de Cristo en América Latina, for the first time in English.

  • Offers theological, historical, and cultural analysis of Latin American understandings of Christ
  • Discusses the sixteenth-century Spanish Christ, popular religiosity, and developed theological reflection
  • Covers the full spectrum oftheological traditions in Latin America
  • Examines the figure of Jesus Christ in the context of Latin American culture of the twentieth century
  • Places liberation theology within its social and revolutionary context

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Publisher
IVP Academic
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9780830851867
eBook ISBN
9780830889914
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Latin American & Caribbean History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication Page
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword by C. René Padilla
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. 1 From the Poor Christ to Christ of the Poor
  8. 2 The Iberian Christ Who Crossed the Oceans
  9. 3 That Other Christ of the Indians
  10. 4 Christ in Early Protestant Preaching
  11. 5 The Beginnings of an Evangelical Latin American Christology
  12. 6 Christ in Ecumenical Protestant Thought
  13. 7 Christology in Times of Revolution
  14. 8 A Christological Renewal in Catholicism
  15. 9 Jesus Christ and the Revolutionaries
  16. 10 The Kingdom of God
  17. 11 Latin America Enters the Theological Scene
  18. 12 Christ in Latin American Culture Once Again
  19. 13 Jesus Christ’s New Time for Reflection and Dialogue
  20. 14 Jesus and the Lifestyle and Mission of the Kingdom
  21. 15 With Jesus in Global Mission
  22. Appendix: Present Directions of Evangelical Theological Reflection
  23. Name Index
  24. Scripture Index
  25. Notes
  26. Praise for In Search of Christ in Latin America
  27. About the Author
  28. More Titles from InterVarsity Press
  29. Copyright

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