Author: Anthony B. Pinn
Publisher: Orbis Books
Keywords: rights, era, civil, post, church, black
Number of Pages: 175
Published: 2002-04
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 1570754233
ISBN-13: 9781570754234

Author: Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer
Publisher: Orbis Books
Keywords: globalization, greed, guns, assassins, school
Number of Pages: 155
Published: 2001-11
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1570753857
ISBN-13: 9781570753855

Author: Gustavo Gutierrez
Publisher: Orbis Books
Keywords: new, introduction, author, anniversary, salvation, liberation, history, politics, theology
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1988-06
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0883445425
ISBN-13: 9780883445426

This is the credo and seminal text of the movement which was later characterized as liberation theology. The book burst upon the scene in the early seventies, and was swiftly acknowledged as a pioneering and prophetic approach to theology which famously made an option for the poor, placing the exploited, the alienated, and the economically wretched at the centre of a programme where "the oppressed and maimed and blind and lame" were prioritized at the expense of those who either maintained the status quo or who abused the structures of power for their own ends. This powerful, compassionate and

Authors:James Hodge, Linda Cooper,
Publisher: Orbis Books
Keywords: movement, close, school, americas, bourgeois, roy, peace, story, father, disturbing
Number of Pages: 244
Published: 2004-10-30
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 1570754349
ISBN-13: 9781570754340

Disturbing the Peace tells the story of a controversial Cajun priest, a former gung-ho Navy officer injured in a bomb blast in Vietnam, who has tirelessly championed human rights and aroused the conscience of a nation. The fast-paced historical biography also profiles the movement he founded to close a notorious U.S. Army school whose graduates have committed atrocities across Latin America. The journey of this "spiritual hobo" has more twists and turns than the Mississippi River: from love affairs that ended in heartbreak to patriotic impulses that ended in disillusionment. From dreams of

Author: Michael Downey
Publisher: Orbis Books
Keywords: spirituality, trinitarian, gift, altogether
Number of Pages: 143
Published: 2000-11
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 1570753334
ISBN-13: 9781570753336

Author: Charles H. Kraft
Publisher: Orbis Books
Keywords: witness, christian, anthropology
Number of Pages: 493
Published: 1997-01-08
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 1570750858
ISBN-13: 9781570750854

This book serves as a thorough, basic introduction to the study of anthropology that has been designed specifically for those who plan careers in mission or cross-cultural ministry. Kraft treats various theories of culture and society; kinship and family structure, cross-cultural communication and assesses various anthropological schools.

Author: Laurenti Magesa
Publisher: Orbis Books
Keywords: abundant, life, traditions, moral, religion, african
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 1997-10
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 1570751056
ISBN-13: 9781570751059