The Ground Beneath The Cross: The Theology Of Ignacio Ellacuria

by Burke, Kevin F.

• ISBN13: 9781589010215
• ISBN10: 1589010213
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-03-31
• Publisher: Georgetown Univ Pr

Summary

Ellacuria, a Jesuit theologian and writer, was president of the University of Central America at the height of El Salvador's brutal civil war in 1989. His advocacy on behalf of the persecuted provoked the political establishment, and in November of that year, the military invaded the campus and murdered Ellacuria--along with five other Jesuit priests and two women. Kevin F. Burke, S.J., illuminates why Ellacuria is significant not only as a martyr, but also as theologian. Ellacuria has remained little known in English, and Burke not only presents us with the first comprehensive introduction to Ignacio Ellacuria thought, he also places him where he belongs--among the major liberation theologians of the twentieth century.

Author Biography

Kevin F. Burke is associate professor of systematic and historical theology at the Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Notes to Preface	p. xvii
Introduction: Theology at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century	p. 1
Notes to Introduction	p. 12
The Martyr As Theologian	p. 15
Ellacuria's Story	p. 15
Mentors and Movements	p. 20
The Influence of Xavier Zubiri	p. 26
Ellacuria's Writings	p. 33
Notes to Chapter 1	p. 35
Philosophy of Historical Reality	p. 43
The Character of Human Intellection	p. 44
The Object of Philosophy	p. 50
The Structure of Reality	p. 53
The Grounds of History	p. 60
Notes to Chapter 2	p. 68
The Human in Historical Reality	p. 73
The Human As Reality Animal	p. 74
The Human Task of History	p. 85
Notes to Chapter 3	p. 92
Foundations of Theological Method	p. 99
Dynamics of the Encounter with Reality	p. 100
Constitutive Conditions of Method	p. 108
Notes to Chapter 4	p. 114
Operations of Theological Method	p. 121
Historical Reality and the Method of Historicization	p. 123
Historicizing the Christian Vision	p. 130
Notes to Chapter 5	p. 144
Salvation in History	p. 151
Beyond Objectivism and Subjectivism	p. 152
Theophany of a Liberating God	p. 157
Historical Reality and Historical Transcendence	p. 166
Notes to Chapter 6	p. 170
The Cross and the Church	p. 175
Historical Necessity and the Death of Jesus	p. 175
The Crucified People	p. 180
Historical Soteriology as Ecclesiology	p. 186
Notes to Chapter 7	p. 199
Conclusion: The Ground Beneath Theology	p. 203
Notes to Conclusion	p. 215
Selected Bibliography	p. 219
Index	p. 235
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