Faith and Ideologies

by Juan Luis Segundo

One of the parents of liberation theology along with Gustavo Gutierrez,Jon Sobrino, and Leonardo Boff among others, Segundo is the most academic, theoretical, and systematic. He sought to discover and develop methods of doing theology that would bring Jesus' message into conversation with the modern world. Like Thomas Aquinus with Aristotle, or like Teilhard de Chardin with evolution, Segundo engages with the philosophy and sociology relevant in his context--existentialism, human rights discourse, Marxist scholarship.... From revies.

352 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

Juan Luis Segundo completed his theological studies at Louvain and received his Doctorate of Letters from the Sorbonne. He was chaplain to various groups in his native Uruguay. He taught theology at the Universities of Harvard, Chicago, Toronto, Montreal, Birmingham, and Sao Paulo.