Oscar Romero And Catholic Social Teaching [Hardcover]

This book explores the life, mission, and writings of martyred Salvadorian archbishop St. ?scar Romero in the light of contemporary work for justice and human development.

Many historians, theologians, and scholars point to St. ?scar Romero as one of the most perceptive, creative, and challenging interpreters of Catholic social teaching in the postVatican II period, while also recognizing the foundational importance of Catholic social teaching in his thought and ministry.

Editor Todd Walatka brings together fourteen leading scholars on both Romero and Catholic social teaching, combining essays that contextualize Romeros engagement historically and focus on the challenges facing Christian communities today. The result is a timely, engaging collection of the most rigorous scholarly engagement with Romero and Catholic social teaching to date.

Contributors: Ana Mar?a Pineda, R.S.M., Michael E. Lee, Matthew Philipp Whelan, Jon Sobrino, S.J., Edgardo Col?n-Emeric, David M. Lantigua, Leo Guardado, Stephen J. Pope, Kevin F. Burke, S.J., Jos? Henr?quez Leiva, Meghan J. Clark, Elizabeth O'Donnell Gandolfo, Rub?n Rosario Rodr?guez, Peter Casarella, and Todd Walatka

We have now arrived at the second dimension of Gods presence in and solidarity with the Salvadoran people as a political community made up of women and men who are coming together to wake up from decades or even centuries of slumber and who are organizing themselves together in solidarity with one another to become artisans of their own destiny. In the foregoing discussion, we saw that San Romero calls the crucified people to conversion  to move from conformity, inertia, and isolation to identification with a people united and on the move. His fourth pastoral letter on The Churchs Mission Amid the National Crisis gives pastoral legs to this theological vision, proposing a mass apostolate in the Archdiocese that would facilitate personal and social transformationlã2