
In Search of Christ in Latin America
From Colonial Image to Liberating Savior
- 368 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Noted theologian Samuel Escobar offers a magisterial survey and study of Christology in Latin America. In Search of Christ in Latin America examines the figure of Jesus Christ in the context of Latin American culture, starting with the first Spanish influence in the sixteenth century and moving through popular religiosity and liberationist themes in Catholic and Protestant thought of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, culminating in an important description of the work of the Fraternidad Teológica Latinoamericana (FTL). Escobar provides theological, historical, and cultural analysis of Latin American understandings of Christ and places liberation theology within its social and revolutionary context. This book is an important step toward a rich understanding of the spiritual reality and powerful message of Jesus.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- 1 From the Poor Christ to Christ of the Poor
- 2 The Iberian Christ Who Crossed the Oceans
- 3 That Other Christ of the Indians
- 4 Christ in Early Protestant Preaching
- 5 The Beginnings of an Evangelical Latin American Christology
- 6 Christ in Ecumenical Protestant Thought
- 7 Christology in Times of Revolution
- 8 A Christological Renewal in Catholicism
- 9 Jesus Christ and the Revolutionaries
- 10 The Kingdom of God
- 11 Latin America Enters the Theological Scene
- 12 Christ in Latin American Culture Once Again
- 13 Jesus Christ’s New Time for Reflection and Dialogue
- 14 Jesus and the Lifestyle and Mission of the Kingdom
- 15 With Jesus in Global Mission
- Appendix Present Directions of Evangelical Theological Reflection
- Bibliography
- About Langham Partnership
- Endnotes
- Index