Ignacio Ellacuria: Essays on History, Liberation, and Salvation JOAN CHITTISTER BOOKS from Africa

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the values and experiences they share can become the bedrock on which to build more humane societies

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Ignacio Ellacuria: Essays on History, Liberation, and Salvation JOAN CHITTISTER BOOKS from AfricaIgnacio Ellacura, a Spanish Jesuit theologian, philosopher, and rector of the University of Central America in San Salvador, was one of the key intellectual authors of liberation theology. On November 16, 1989, he and other members of the Jesuit community of the university were massacred by Salvadoran army troops. Ignacio Ellacura offers twelve of his most important essays, at last providing English speaking readers with a comprehensive introduction