Author: Publisher:
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Christian Work in Latin America
Author: Christian Work in South America
Author: Committee on Cooperation in Latin AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Christian Work in South America: Church and the community. Religious education. Literature. Relations between foreign and national workers. Special religious problems. Cooperation and unity
Author: Committee on Cooperation in Latin AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Christian Work in Latin America
Author: In Search of Christ in Latin America
Author: Samuel EscobarPublisher: Langham Publishing
ISBN: 178368660X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
Noted theologian Samuel Escobar offers a magisterial survey and study of Christology in Latin America. In Search of Christ in Latin America examines the figure of Jesus Christ in the context of Latin American culture, starting with the first Spanish influence in the sixteenth century and moving through popular religiosity and liberationist themes in Catholic and Protestant thought of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, culminating in an important description of the work of the Fraternidad Teológica Latinoamericana (FTL). Escobar provides theological, historical, and cultural analysis of Latin American understandings of Christ and places liberation theology within its social and revolutionary context. This book is an important step toward a rich understanding of the spiritual reality and powerful message of Jesus.
Christian Work in South America
Author: Robert E SpeerPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781022017399
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the history and current state of Christian missionary work in South America. Through firsthand accounts and interviews, the authors reveal the challenges and rewards of spreading the Christian message among the diverse peoples and cultures of this vast continent. For anyone interested in the history of Christian missions, this book is an essential resource. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Christian Work in Latin America
Author: Renaissant Latin America
Author: Harlan Page BeachPublisher:
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Category : Congress on Christian Work in Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Rebirth of Latin American Christianity
Author: Todd HartchPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199844593
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Predominantly Catholic for centuries, Latin America is still largely Catholic today, but the religious continuity in the region masks great changes that have taken place in the past five decades. In fact, it would be fair to say that Latin American Christianity has been transformed definitively in the years since the Second Vatican Council. Religious change has not been obvious because its transformation has not been the sudden and massive growth of a new religion, as in Africa and Asia. It has been rather a simultaneous revitalization and fragmentation that threatened, awakened, and ultimately brought to a greater maturity a dormant and parochial Christianity. New challenges from modernity, especially in the form of Protestantism and Marxism, ultimately brought forth new life. In The Rebirth of Latin American Christianity, Todd Hartch examines the changes that have swept across Latin America in the last fifty years, and situates them in the context of the growth of Christianity in the global South.
New Worlds
Author: John LynchPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300183747
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
This extraordinary book encompasses the time period from the first Christian evangelists' arrival in Latin America to the dictators of the late twentieth century. With unsurpassed knowledge of Latin American history, John Lynch sets out to explore the reception of Christianity by native peoples and how it influenced their social and religious lives as the centuries passed. As attentive to modern times as to the colonial period, Lynch also explores the extent to which Indian religion and ancestral ways survived within the new Christian culture.The book follows the development of religious culture over time by focusing on peak periods of change: the response of religion to the Enlightenment, the emergence of the Church from the wars of independence, the Romanization of Latin American religion as the papacy overtook the Spanish crown in effective control of the Church, the growing challenge of liberalism and the secular state, and in the twentieth century, military dictators' assaults on human rights. Throughout the narrative, Lynch develops a number of special themes and topics. Among these are the Spanish struggle for justice for Indians, the Church's position on slavery, the concept of popular religion as distinct from official religion, and the development of liberation theology.