How Latin America saved the soul of the Catholic Church /Edward L. Cleary.
Description
Introduction: the transformation of Latin American Christianity -- Religious history and the Latin American tradition -- Successfully bringing millions of laypersons into service in the church -- Offering a marketplace for spiritual well-being -- Embracing diversity : encounters with non-Christian religions -- Emphasizing the poor and vulnerable -- Transforming theology from hyperintellectualism to concerns of the people and the care of the earth -- Emphasizing evangelization and empowering 1.2 million lay catechists -- Choosing human rights and dying for them -- Peace-keeping and mediating -- Sending missionaries with a message of solidarity.
iii, 220 p. :ill. ;23 cm.