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...What makes his piece so useful is that it is not one more tract on "liberation theology," but rather a reflection out of one's lived experience regarding social upheaval and the inner necessities imposed upon each of us in order to have a viable process of change...
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...Himes' formula, God is community, opens new insights and adds a strong support theme for the bishops' pastoral on the economy...
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...it has to become real in the structures of society, too, and he will not be satisfied with anything less than the whole thing, realized here and now, in Honduras...
...To the Editors: Himes and Himes ["Rights, Economics, & the Trinity," March 14] are on the verge of articulating an authentic liberation theology in the American context...
...This is where the book ends, with the words: "To be a Christian is to be a revolutionary...
...Restless because there is no injustice to fight, he asks his Jesuit superiors for permission to return to Honduras with a guerrilla band...
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...Its development of the communitarian base for a political theology poses a striking counter to the liberal tradition and the spirit of individualism so dominant in the U.S...
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...To the Editors: The Himes' essay, "Rights, Economics, & the Trinity," [March 14] makes a major contribution to the theological grounding of the claim for economic rights...
...His family tells us in an epilogue that in July 1983 he crossed into Honduras with a small group of guerrillas...
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...In the end what the reader will remember may not be the final version of Carney's political and theological message so much as the example of his life...
...The adjective "liberal" originally meant, and still means to us who accept this designation with pride, bountiful, generous, open-minded, and tending to intellectual enlargement...
...But, more importantly, like any good story of a life, his book demands that we think about our own lives: this was his journey, what does it say about mine...
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...Correspondence (Continued from page 226) forget to spell out is the mode of that transformation...
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...As well intentioned and decently wrought as that document is, it founders in its own articulation of the essence of human nature as person-in-community, because it lacks grounding in the multi-faceted symbol of the Trinity, which Christianity declares is the shape of the "'Really Real" which informs our experience of reality...
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...In its dazzling brightness, that insight shatters the prism of American individualism, which presently distorts American social, economic, and political life, and allows liberation to burst forth in covenantal concern for all God's children...
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...Within two months he appears to have been captured or killed in fighting by U.S.-assisted Honduran troops (his chalice and other possessions were recovered...
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...The following year he returns, to a small village in Nicaragua, where the Sandinista revolution has brought about much of what Carney had dreamed of for Honduras...
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