Table of Contents
Introduction: Ignacio Ellacuría: A View from the North Michael E. Lee 1
Part I The Reality of History through Latin American Eyes
1 The Latin American Quincentenary: Discovery or Cover-up? (1989) 27
The Quincentenary of the "Discovery" as Seen from Latin America 28
Solution in the North, Problem in the South 34
2 On Liberation (1989) 39
The Christian Retrieval of Liberation 41
Liberation and Freedom 47
People of God and Liberation 54
3 Laying the Philosophical Foundations of Latin American Theological Method (1975) 63
Two Examples of Theological Method 67
The Problem of the Philosophical Foundations of Latin American Theological Method 74
4 The Liberating Function of Philosophy (1985) 93
The Critical and Creative Function of Philosophy 96
Conditions That Make the Liberating Function of Philosophy Possible 107
Conclusions 117
Part II Liberation: The Christian and the Historical
5 The Christian Challenge of Liberation Theology (1987) 123
History as the Fullest Location of Reality and Salvation 125
The History of Salvation as a History of Liberation 127
The Decentralization and De-Westernization of the Christian Faith 132
6 The Historicity of Christian Salvation (1984) 137
Setting Out the Problem 138
The Search for Christian Historical Transcendence 144
7 Salvation History (1987) 169
From a Naturalistic to a Historical Consideration of Salvation 170
The History of Salvation 173
Salvation and History 179
Is There Salvation in History? 185
The Historical Subject of Salvation 188
8 The Crucified People: An Essay in Historical Soteriology (1978) 195
The Passion of Jesus as Seen from the Crucified People: The Crucifixion of the People as Seen from the Death of Jesus 197
Theological Importance of the Cross in Salvation History 201
The Death of Jesus and the Crucifixion of the People Are Realities of History and the Result of Actions in History 203
Jesus' Death and the Peoples Crucifixion in Terms of the Servant of Yahweh 211
Part III Saving History
9 The Church of the Poor, Historical Sacrament of Liberation (1977) 227
The Church, Historical Sacrament of Salvation 228
Liberation as the Historical Form of Salvation 236
The Church of the Poor, Historical Sacrament of Liberation 244
10 Theology as the Ideological Moment of Ecclesial Praxis (1978) 255
Theology, Ecclesial Praxis, and Historical Praxis 256
What Ecclesial Praxis Gives Christian Legitimization to the Theological Task? 264
11 Christian Spirituality (1983) 275
The Spiritual and the Material: Two Dimensions of the Person 276
Toward a Correct Understanding of Christian Spirituality 277
Specific Characteristics of Christian Spirituality 281
12 Monseñor Romero: One Sent by God to Save His People (1980) 285
The Historical Force of the Gospel 286
The Conversion of Monseñor Romero 287
The Historical Specificity of His Conversion 289
Salvation of the Historical Process 290
Publication Histories 293
Index 297
