Description: This exciting volume gathers some of the most creative new theology from within the Hispanic community, which has become the largest minority group in the U.S. Situated between Euro-American and Latin American theologies, Hispanic theologians are addressing such issues as: method, fundamental theological themes, the use of Scripture, the roles of women, and their own specific context. This volume also features the work of Maria Pilar Aquino, Orlando O. Espin, Fernando F. Segovia, Allan Figueroa Deck, S.J. and Sixto J. Garcia.
Brief description: Roberto S. Goizueta, Ph.D. (Marquette University), is as Associate Professor of Theology at Loyola University of Chicago. He is past president of the Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the United States, has served as co-director of the Aquinas Center of Theology at Emory University, Atlanta, and is the author of Liberation, Method, and Dialogue (1988) and Caminemos Con Jesus: Toward a Hispanic/Latino Theology of Accompaniment (1995).
Review Quotes: ""We are a people whose richly hued countenances and accented language bear witness to a history of conflict, out of which, like the mythical phoenix, emerged a new reality, that of the U.S. Hispanic." from the Preface