The little stories and the traditions that grew up around Saint
Martin de Porres of Peru are fascinating and every bit as charming
as the stories told of Saint Francis of Assisi. But as
Garcia-Rivera shows, these deceptively simple stories reveal much
more. For the first time Garcia-Rivera unpacks these stories, using
the semiotic method and insights garnered from the works of Robert
Schreiter, Eugene Genovese, and Antonio Gramsci.To build this
method of theological reflection Garcia-Rivera addresses such
questions as: does an authentic Latin American theology exist? If
it exists, where and how can it be expounded? What does Saint
Martin de Porres beatification process tell us? How do the little
stories reflect and extend the great theological debate of
Valladolid in 1550, with BartolomA de las Casas and Juan Gines de
Sepulveda arguing whether the Indians were even human beings? Using
the semiotics of culture to delve into these stories, the author
provides rich and astonishing insights into the power of the little
story, told and retold over time by ordinary folk, that make
possible the Big Story of universal principles of human reality.
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