This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the thought of
Ignacio Ellacuria, the Jesuit philosopher-theologian martyred for
his work on behalf of Latin America's oppressed peoples.
While serving as president of the Jesuit-run University of
Central America in the midst of El Salvador's brutal civil war,
Ellacuria was also a prolific writer. His advocacy on behalf of the
country's persecuted majority provoked the enmity of the Salvadoran
political establishment. On November 16, 1989, members of the
Salvadoran military entered the university's campus and murdered
Ellacuria, along with five other Jesuit priests and two women.
Kevin F. Burke, SJ, shows why Ellacuria is significant not only
as a martyr but also as a theologian. Ellacuria effectively
integrated philosophy, history, anthropology, and sociopolitical
analysis into his theological reflections on salvation,
spirituality, and the church to create an original contribution to
liberation theology.
Ellacuria's writings directly address one of the most vexing
issues in theology today: can theologians account for the demands
arising from both the particularity of their various
social-historical situations and also the universal claims of
Christian revelation? Burke explains how Ellacuria bases theology
in a philosophy of historical reality -- the "ground beneath the
cross" -- and interprets the suffering of "the crucified peoples"
in the light of Jesus' crucifixion. Ellacuria thus inserts the
theological realities of salvation and transcendence squarely
within the course of human events, and he connects these to the
Christian mandate to "take the crucified peoples down from their
crosses." Placing Ellacuria's thought in the context of historical
trends within the Roman Catholic Church, particularly Vatican II
and the rise of liberation theology in Latin America, Burke argues
that Ellacuria makes a distinctive contribution to contemporary
Catholic theology.
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