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Óscar Romero and Catholic Social Teaching
Todd Walatka (Edited by)
9780268208752
Hardback, published 15 October 2024
402 pages, 4 b&w illustrations - 4 Illustrations, black and white
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.718 kg
"Óscar Romero and Catholic Social Teaching is a timely and much needed contribution to the field. The scholars who contribute bring insight not only on Catholic social teaching and tradition in the life of Óscar Romero, but also contribute more widely to discussions associated with theologies of liberation, the preferential option for the poor, human dignity, economic justice, the poor, protest, peace, dialogue, violence and radical nonviolence, war, solidarity, racism, and decolonialism."—Sharon E. Heaney, author of Engaging Latino/a/x Theologies
This book explores the life, mission, and writings of martyred Salvadorian archbishop St. Óscar Romero in the light of contemporary work for justice and human development. Many historians, theologians, and scholars point to St. Óscar Romero as one of the most perceptive, creative, and challenging interpreters of Catholic social teaching in the post–Vatican II period, while also recognizing the foundational importance of Catholic social teaching in his thought and ministry. Editor Todd Walatka brings together fourteen leading scholars on both Romero and Catholic social teaching, combining essays that contextualize Romero's engagement historically and focus on the challenges facing Christian communities today. The result is a timely, engaging collection of the most rigorous scholarly engagement with Romero and Catholic social teaching to date. Contributors: Ana María Pineda, R.S.M., Michael E. Lee, Matthew Philipp Whelan, Jon Sobrino, S.J., Edgardo Colón-Emeric, David M. Lantigua, Leo Guardado, Stephen J. Pope, Kevin F. Burke, S.J., José Henríquez Leiva, Meghan J. Clark, Elizabeth O'Donnell Gandolfo, Rubén Rosario Rodríguez, Peter Casarella, and Todd Walatka
Part 1. Romero in Context 1. Romero: A Man in Search of God and Truth by Ana María Pineda, R.S.M 2. Óscar Romero, Liberation Theology, and Catholic Social Teaching by Michael E. Lee 3. "Like a Thorn in Our Sleeping Flesh" On Óscar Romero's Shifting Reading of Catholic Social Teaching by Matthew Philipp Whelan 4. Monseñor Romero and the Social Doctrine of the Church by Jon Sobrino Part 2. Romero and Catholic Social Teaching 5. Romero and the Preferential Option for the Poor: An Ecumenical Praxis by Edgardo Colón-Emeric 6. Faces of the Salvadoran Christ: Archbishop Romero's Praxis of Human Dignity in the Flesh by David M. Lantigua 7. Occupying the Cathedral of the Poor: Óscar Romero, the Grammar of Occupations, and the Protection of the Persecuted by Leo Guardado 8. Romero on the Common Good and Economic Justice by Stephen J. Pope 9. An Energy Field More Intense than War: Óscar Romero's Imagination of Peace by Kevin F. Burke, S.J. 10. Monseñor Romero's Quest for Peace: A Journey of Dialogue and Mediation on the Brink of War by José Henríquez Leiva 11. The Witness of Incarnational Solidarity: Óscar Romero and Living out Gaudium et Spes by Meghan Clark 12. Un Pueblo Solidario: The Solidarity of the Poor with the Poor in Óscar Romero's Theology of the People of God by Elizabeth O'Donnell Gandolfo 13. Rethinking Radical Nonviolence: Romero, Catholic Social Teaching, and Racism by Rubén Rosario Rodríguez 14. A Liturgical Decolonial Turn? Romero's Mirroring of Catholic Social Teaching through Word, Sacrament, and Re-Existence by Peter Casarella