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Prologue to the English Edition: The Empire and God | |
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The Empire | |
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God | |
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The Empire's Clay Feet and the Power of the Cross | |
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A Closing Word | |
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Introduction | |
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Forgetting and Manipulating Tragedies | |
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Who We Human Beings Are, Who God Is, What Brings Salvation | |
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A Word from El Salvador | |
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First Reflections after the Earthquake | |
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The Tragedy of the Poor | |
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The Injustice That Shapes Our World | |
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The Saintliness of Living | |
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The Primordial Demand: To Be Affected by Tragedy | |
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Where Is God in the Earthquake | |
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Is Hope Dying in El Salvador | |
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The Earthquake Seen from the Christian Perspective | |
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The Battle of Definitions: What Is an Earthquake? | |
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The Historical Element of the Christian View | |
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The Transcendent Element of the Christian View | |
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Being Honest toward Reality | |
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Deficit in the "Will to Truth" | |
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The Lie and the Truth in the Christian Tradition | |
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The Crucified People | |
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The Sinfulness of Reality | |
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Iniquitous Poverty: The Destruction of "Home" | |
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Iniquitous Inequality: Comparative Harm | |
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The Christian Tradition: Poverty, Inequality, and Injustice | |
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The Unconcealable Sin | |
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Primordial Saintliness | |
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Primordial Saintliness and Primordial martyrdom | |
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Primordial Saintliness and Solidarity: "Supporting One Another" | |
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Primary Saintliness and the Civilization of Poverty | |
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Appendix on "Countercultural Goodness" | |
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Terrorism and Barbarity: New York and Afghanistan | |
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The Ultimacy of the Human: Suffering and Compassion | |
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The Will to Truth: The Greater Truth | |
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The Utopia of Reconciliation: Brotherhood Between Manhattan and El Salvador | |
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Where Is God and What Is God Doing in the Tragedies? | |
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Religious Fanaticism and the God of Life | |
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Theodicy and the Crucified God | |
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Epilogue: Redemption and Utopia | |
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Redemption: "What Is Not Assumed, Is Not Saved" | |
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Utopia: "To Make Life Possible" | |
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Index | |