Martyr of the AmazonThe murder in 2005 of an American nun, Sister Dorothy Stang, focused the world's attention on the plight of poor farmers in the Brazilian Amazon and their struggles against rapacious developers. Sister Dorothy had worked in Brazil for forty years. From a conventional nun in the pre Vatican II era, she had developed a keen social conscience and, increasingly, a deep, mystical commitment to the integrity of Creation. These ideals combined in her

He founded the Mexican American Cultural Center in San Antonio

The Faith of a People: Theological Reflections on Popular Catholicism

and lead editor of The Dictionary of Asian Christianity (Eerdmans

Systematic Theology draws on writing of the most distinguished theologians of Latin America

is Ignacio Ellacuria Professor of Catholic Social Thought at Georgetown University

the gospel challenge to follow Christ in "downward mobility

She draws on mystics and theologians to show the love of God at the heart of a total redemptive process

members of the same Body of Christ

What does it mean

with other human beings

resonant of an African anthropology of Ubuntu that teaches “a person is a person through other persons

Mystical Theology provides a working model of such a dialogue