In search of Christ in Latin America : from colonial image to liberating savior / Samuel Escobar ; foreword by C. Rene Padilla.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Escobar, Samuel, 1934- author.

Contributor:

Padilla, C. René, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evangelicalism--Latin America--History--20th century.

Evangelicalism.

Jesus Christ--Person and offices.

Jesus Christ.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 pages)

Place of Publication:

Downers Grove, Illinois : InterVarsity Press, 2019.

Summary:

* 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 and study 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 Christ in 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 a rich 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 of theological 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

Contents:

From the poor Christ to Christ of the poor

The Iberian Christ who crossed the oceans

That other Christ of the Indians

Christ in early Protestant preaching

The beginnings of an Evangelical Latin American Christology

Christ in Ecumenical Protestant thought

Christology in times of revolution

A Christological renewal in Catholicism

Jesus Christ and the revolutionaries

The kingdom of God

Latin America enters the theological scene

Christ in Latin American culture once again

Jesus Christ's new time for reflection and dialogue

Jesus and the lifestyle and mission of the kingdom

With Jesus in global mission.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780830889914

0830889914