No Salvation Outside the Poor Prophetic-Utopian Essays

Name: No Salvation Outside the Poor Prophetic-Utopian Essays
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ISBN: 9781570757525

ISBN-10: 1570757526

ISBN-13: 9781570757525

Edition: 2008

Authors: Jon Sobrino

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The provocative title of these essays plays on a traditional Catholic slogan: "No salvation outside the church." Insofar as it implies God's response to a world marked by suffering and injustice, then the poor represent an indispensible test, a key to the healing of a sick society. Drawing on the radical hope of Christian faith--the promise of the kingdom of God and the resurrection of the death--Sobrino presents a bold counter-cultural challenge to a "civilization of wealth" that lives off the blood of the poor. Inspired by the witness of Oscar Romero and Ignacio Ellacuria, and the church's preferential option for the poor, Sobrino offers these "prophetic-utopian" reflections on faith and…

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List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Orbis Books
Publication date: 5/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 147
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.484

Prologue	p. ix
The Crucified People and the Civilization of Poverty: Ignacio Ellacuria's "Taking Hold of Reality"	p. 1
Taking Hold of Reality	p. 2
"The Crucified People"	p. 3
The Civilization of Poverty	p. 9
Depth and Urgency of the Option for the Poor	p. 19
The Depth of the Option: Facing the Unfathomable Mystery of the Poor	p. 20
Saving the Poor	p. 25
Extra Pauperes Nulla Salus: A Short Utopian-Prophetic Essay	p. 35
The Need to Reverse the Course of History	p. 35
A World That Is Gravely Ill	p. 37
The Poor and Salvation	p. 48
Extra Pauperes Nulla Salus	p. 69
The Mystery of the Poor	p. 72
The Centrality of the Kingdom of God Announced by Jesus: Reflections before Aparecida	p. 77
The Centrality of the Kingdom of God	p. 77
Utopia	p. 80
The Centrality of the Poor in Christianity	p. 88
The Following of Jesus	p. 90
A Final Word	p. 97
The Resurrection of One Crucified: Hope and a Way of Living	p. 99
Death and Victims	p. 99
A Drama in Two Acts	p. 101
The Hope of the Victims	p. 102
The Hope of Nonvictims	p. 103
Living in Accordance with Jesus' Resurrection	p. 105
Helping Jesus' Legacy to Bear Fruit in the Churches: Ellacuria on Archbishop Romero	p. 109
The People	p. 110
God	p. 116
Following	p. 121
Grace	p. 126
Notes	p. 129
Index	p. 143
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