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Sobrino's starting point is the suffering poor of El Salvador. As he demonstrates, this vantage point reveals a different face of Christ, and consequently demands a different mode of discipleship. Rather than an 'abstract' Christ who identifies with the powerful and counsels passive acceptance of unjust suffering, the poor have discovered a new image of Christ as 'the Liberator,' one who lived and died in service of God's Kingdom in history. Surrounded by the deaths of countless thousands, including his own martyred Jesuit community, Sobrino brings to his reflections a sense of pathos and challenge that transforms this theologgical study in to a work of profound spiritual reflection Sobrino aims in this work to promote not only understanding but solidarity and conversion. Orbis Books, 308 pages. Paperback.
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