MOJ Reader on Liberation Theology

3L and MOJ reader Katherine Margaret Gordon writes in response to our discussion of liberation theology:

I’ll be a third year law student and I’ve been reading Mirror of Justice for several months now. . . Liberation theology  is what got me interested in human rights and learning Spanish, and then deciding to come back to the United States to work in immigration law.

. . . I wanted to let you know that José María Vigil along with many others has just put together an e-book from about forty or so Latin American theologians (and a few others)—Bajar de la cruz a los pobres: Cristología de la liberación. It is basically a really quick response from a great number of people both as a showing of solidarity for Jon Sobrino, and a way to demonstrate the continued vitality of Latin American theology as the CELAM conference occurs in Brazil.

http://www.servicioskoinonia.org/LibrosDigitales/index.php

I’ve actually found myself in the process of translating the epilogue that Jon Sobrino himself has written for the book—-part reflection on his Christology in general, and part a direct response to the “notification.” Hopefully the final revision will be done in about a week on the servicioskoinonia.org website.

Katherine points out that liberation theology is still be written but is just not being translated into English.  She passed on a request from Jose Maria Vigil that bilingual scholars offer their services in order to help get what is being written in Spanish translated into English.