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“God Speaks from within History”: The Challenging Witness of Liberation Theology

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2022

Laura Nuzzi O'Shaughnessy
Laura Nuzzi O'Shaughnessy*
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St. Lawrence University
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 51 , Issue 3 , 2016 , pp. 227 - 240
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References

1. Walter M. Abbott and Joseph Gallagher, eds., The Documents of Vatican II (New York: Guild Press, 1966), 202.

2. Ibid., 203.

3. Gustavo Gutiérrez, A Theology of Liberation, translated and edited by Sister Caridad Inda and John Eagleson (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1973, 1988).

4. Ignacio Ellacuría, Freedom Made Flesh: The Mission of Christ and His Church, translated by John Drury (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Press, 1976).

5. Jon Sobrino, The Principle of Mercy: Taking the Crucified People from the Cross (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Press, 1994).

6. Johannes Baptist Metz, ed., Faith and the World of Politics (New York: Paulist Press, 1968).

7. James H. Cone, A Black Theology of Liberation (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1968), and Risks of Faith: The Emergence of a Black Theology of Liberation, 1968–1998 (Boston: Beacon Press, 1999); Kelly Brown Douglas, Sexuality and the Black Church: A Womanist Perspective (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1999); Ivone Gebara, Out of the Depths: Woman's Experience of Evil and Salvation, translated by Ann Patrick Ware (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress Press, 1999).

8. See, for example, Quentin L. Quade, ed., The Pope and Revolution: John Paul II Confronts Liberation Theology (Washington, DC: Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1982); and Anselm Kyongsuk Min, Dialectic of Salvation: Issues in Theology of Liberation (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989).

9. Tommie Sue Montgomery, Revolution in El Salvador: From Civil Strife to Civil Peace (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1982).

10. For an extensive analysis of the accords and the establishment of the historic Commission on the Truth see also “El informe de la comisión de la verdad: Análisis, reflexiones y comentarios,” Estudios Centroamericanos, abril–mayo 1993; and the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, Improvising History: A Critical Evaluation of the UN Observer Mission in El Salvador (New York: Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, 1995).

11. As quoted in Johann Baptist Metz, El clamor de la tierra: El problema dramático de la teodicea (Estella: Verbo Divino, 1996), 26.

12. Kenosis refers to the self-emptying of one's will and becoming entirely receptive to God's divine will.

13. Theologal is an Ignatian term signifying life transformed by grace and animated by the virtues of faith, hope, and charity.

14. The title comes from a nineteenth-century work by John Henry Newman, An Essay on a Grammar of Assent to God,“ in which he wrote about the ongoing tensions between faith and reason (Ashley, Burke, and Cardenal, xv).

15. As quoted in Martin Maier, Monseñor Romero, maestro de espiritualidad (San Salvador: UCA Editores, 2005), 104.

16. For an example of the participatory dialogue that took place between a priest and a small community of believers see Ernesto Cardenal, The Gospel in Solentiname, vols. 1, 2, 3 (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1977, 1978, 1979).

17. “Pope's Focus on Poor Revives Theology Long Scorned as Marxist,” New York Times International, May 24, 2015.

18. “Pope Approves Martyrdom Decree for Slain Salvadoran Archbishop,” Guardian, February 3, 2015, http://www.theguardian.com/world/3February/2015.

19. Jocelyn A. Sideco, “Romero, Saint of the Americas,” National Catholic Reporter, June 5–18, 2015.

20. Linda Cooper, “Salvadoran Military Man Linked to 1989 Jesuit Massacre Faces Extradition to Spain,” National Catholic Reporter, April 21, 2015.