Love That Produces Hope

by Burke, Kevin F.

• ISBN13: 9780814652176
• ISBN10: 0814652174
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-05-31
• Publisher: Michael Glazier

Summary

Fr. Ignacio Ellacuria, S.J., president of the University of Central America, leading Latin American philosopher, and liberation theologian, was assassinated with five Jesuit companions and two women on November 16, 1989. The Love Produces Hope brings together leading authorities on key aspects of Ellacuria's thought. The book introduces readers to the groundbreaking life and thought of Ignacio Ellacuria. His biography and writings embody late twentieth-century transformations and tensions that reshaped the life of the Catholic church among the "crucified peoples" of Central America. The Love That Produces Hope evaluates the significance of Ellacuria's work, particularly his impact on theology, philosophy, and education. Ellacuria found hope in his faith that God's grace sustains the tenacious struggle of millions of men, women, and children to nurture those they love in the face of poverty and an uncertain future.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	v
A Note on Citations	vii
Abbreviations of Ellacuria's Writings	x
Introduction	xii
Robert Lassalle-Klein
Part One: Sources of Ellacuria's Thought
Ignacio Ellacuria, the Human Being and the Christian: ``Taking the Crucified People Down from the Cross''	1	(67)
Jon Sobrino
No One Takes My Life from Me; I Give It Freely	68	(5)
Gustavo Gutierrez
Assessing the Philosophical Achievement of Ignacio Ellacuria	73	(15)
Antonio Gonzalez
Ignacio Ellacuria's Debt to Xavier Zubiri: Critical Principles for a Latin American Philosophy and Theology of Liberation	88	(40)
Robert Lassalle-Klein
Karl Rahner: The Teacher of Ignacio Ellacuria	128	(16)
Martin Maier
Contemplation in the Action of Justice: Ignacio Ellacuria and Ignatian Spirituality	144	(25)
J. Matthew Ashley
Part Two: Reception of Ellacuria's Thought
Christian Salvation and the Disposition of Transcendence: Ignacio Ellacuria's Historical Soteriology	169	(18)
Kevin F. Burke
Ecclesiology from Below: Principles from Ignacio Ellacuria	187	(18)
Roger Haight
The People of God in the Struggle for Justice	205	(18)
Maria Pilar Aquino
Ignacio Ellacuria: From Medellin to Martyrdom	223	(14)
Gregory Baum
What San Salvador Says to Nairobi: The Liberation Ethics of Ignacio Ellacuria	237	(13)
Aquiline Tarimo
William O'Neill
Toward a Christianity of Political Compassion	250	(5)
Johann Baptist Metz
Bibliography. Complete Works of Ignacio Ellacuria	255	(25)
Index	280