How Latin America saved the soul of the Catholic Church
By: Edward L. Cleary.
Publisher: Paulist Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Mahwah, NJ
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780809146291
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Latin America
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The transformation of Latin American Christianity; title: Religious history and the Latin American tradition; title: By successfully bringing millions of laypersons into service in the church; title: By offering a marketplace for spiritual well-being; title: By embracing diversity : encounters with non-Christian religions; title: By emphasizing the poor and vulnerable; title: By transforming theology from hyper-intellectualism to concerns of the people and the care of the earth; title: By emphasizing evangelization and empowering; title: Million lay catechists; title: By choosing human rights and dying for them; title: By peace-keeping and by mediating; title: By sending missionaries with a message of solidarity.