"La teologia de la liberation en debate
Schussler-Fiorenza, Francis
the cinematic equivalent to the old TV lure to "tune in next cameos. But they also illustrate the limits of this genre, an time." Confronting the eternal show biz question ("What'll imitativeness...
...all other action-adventure fantasies...
...rez emphasizes the differences between volume...
...The Pauline distinc- Joseph Ratzinger's theological analysis tion (Romans 8) between the flesh and III outlines a spirituality based on con- published in the Peruvian journal the spirit serves to contrast a life of an version, commitment to the poor, ef-Oiga and widely reported in the idolatrous covetousness for material pos- ficacious love, community, and joy...
...Like E.T., he should come home and escape the finally (I think), a floppy suspension bridge perilously roped clutches of the evil High Priest Lucas, whose cinema rites over some gaping crocs...
...The only question is --There are other, more serious problems, particularly the who will tire first, Indiana, or us...
...There Indiana's escapades...
...with action, inner with outer, love and thrills...
...Whereas liberation spirituality, combines liberation theol- THE SPIRITUAL JOURNEY theology operates out of the experience ogy with biblical theology in a meditative OF A PEOPLE of oppression, European political theolstyle in which biblical texts serve for the Gustavo Gutt~rrez ogy is much more involved with the elaboration of themes of liberation and Orbis, $7.95, 181 pp...
...Consequently, Gutidrrez devel"LA TEOLUlA DE LA experience of Latin American liberation LIBERACIbN EN DEBATE" ops as his major theme the option for the spirituality...
...The biblical theme of God's poor and the historical role of the poor poor in a foreign land illustrates the situa- Joseph Ratzinger within the process of liberation...
...After a rickshaw car chase, Indiana must endure: Spielberg justifies the expense by saying that profits from mountain air crashes, treks in the high country, yucky eel such movies allow him to make better films without studio dinners at the sinister palace...
...swordfights with the High these are set in America (E.T...
...Books: GUTIERREZ & RATZINGER A DECADE has passed since Gustavo THE POWER OF THE cal and systematic, outlines develGutidrrez's A Theology of Libera- POOR IN HISTORY opments since Medellin, argues against tion, the classic statement of Latin Amer- SELECTED WRITINGS the anti-liberationist preparatory docuican liberation theology, was published ment written for the Puebla conference, in English...
...He is far better at films that blend myth giant bugs and bevies of snakes...
...love and the building of community...
...and Close Encounters...
...At Priest...
...among us...
...His new books develop, ap- Gustavo Gutt~rrez and defends liberation theology...
...Here they have put because we have seen it all before -- the jaws, the chases, the their heads and stocks together in one grand effort to out-wow evil priest, the works...
...Ironically there is no suspense in we do for an encore...
...It takes ten of our seats before we're even in them...
...they have answered quite simply: the Indiana Jones, not because we know he will survive, but same thing, wound up to the nth degree...
...Confronting the eternal show biz question ("What'll imitativeness that kills...
...Part II Oiga de Lima, January 23, 1984 As a volume of advocacy and defense, develops discipleship as the following of The Power of the Poor in History can Jesus in order to relate spirituality to Francis Schussles~Fiorenza readily be compared with Cardinal Jesus's life-praxis...
...seem to demand tearing the heart out of every film...
...Beginning a ten-year-old to see the film), and the stereotypical image of with the hectic Shanghai prelude, there is never a pause to an exotic country as rife with homicide and perversion...
...secret passages crawling with interference...
...When so predictable, the action pales...
...Gutidrply, and defend the basic themes of that Orbis, $10.95, 240 pp...
...spear-studded chambers...
...post-Enlightenment crisis of faith and spirituality...
...The pace thereafter (if minutes to read the production teams listed on the screen "pace" applies), is a relentless assault, and, I suspect, an credits at the end of the movie, and their names occupy audience wipe-out even for the self-propelled torpedoes four-fifths of the space on Paramount's publicity foldout...
...Interestingly, forced initiation into Kali rites...
...Part collection of essays, much more analyti- By situating liberation theol15 June 1984:375...
...it's as if we're supposed to be on the edge is also the obscenity of the cost: $25 million...
...The crocs are both cute and key...
...I hope so...
...violence (Spielberg has acknowledged that he would not send Indiana Jones is exhausting and finally boring...
...a mine-shaft escape-ride that out-vertigoes all roller home, Spielberg is deeper --better, in short, at Indiana than coasters, cascades of water flooding the mine tunnels, and Indiana Jones...
...Considering their promi- TOM O'BRIEN nence in other films of this kind, they should get a nomination (Tom O'Brien, one of the guest critics reviewing moviesJor for an award sometime, or at least some credit for all their Commonweal, teaches at the Manhattan School of Music...
...We Drink From Our Own WE DRINK FROM OUR liberation theology and North European Wells, originally a series of talks on OWN WELLS political theology...
...popular press as the Holy Office's sessions with a life of the spirit ordered to The Power of the Poor in History, a denunciation of liberation theology...
...tion of the poor in Latin America...
...Part I points to the contextual reason...
Vol. 111 • June 1984 • No. 12
