Liberationist Christologies

0 comment

The image is “Station 15: Triumph of Life” (1992) from the “Stations of the Cross from Latin America 1492-1992” or “Latin American Via Crucis” by Adolfo Pérez Esquivel of Argentina.  


See the rather comprehensive collection, which has been made available for free: International Theological Commission of the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians, ed. Getting the Poor Down from the Cross: Christology of Liberation. EATWOT/ASETT, 2007.

Goizueta, Roberto S. “The Christology of Jon Sobrino,” in Hope & Solidarity: Jon Sobrino’s Challenge to Christian Theology, edited by Stephen J. Pope, 90–104. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2008.

Lassalle-Klein, Robert. “Jesus of Galilee and the Crucified People: The Contextual Christology of Jon Sobrino and Ignacio Ellacurca.” Theological Studies 70, no. 2 (2009): 347–76.

Mullady, Brian. “An Analysis of Christology in Liberation Theology.” Angelicum 58, no. 4 (1981): 438–59.

Schrijver, Georges de. “Christology from the Underside of History: The Case of Jon Sobrino,” in The Myriad Christ: Plurality and the Quest for Unity in Contemporary Christology, edited by J. Haers, and T. Merrigan, Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2000.

Sesboüé, Bernard. “Christology of Jon Sobrino.” Theology Digest 54, no. 2 (2010): 165–76.

Sobrino, Jon. “The Historical Jesus and the Christ of Faith: The Tension Between Faith and Religion.” Cross Currents 27, no. 4 (1977): 437–63.

Sobrino, Jon.  Christ the Liberator: A View from the Victims. Orbis Books, 2001.

Sobrino, Jon.  Jesus in Latin America. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1987.

Posts in this Series

Related Articles