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Jon Sobrino

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Born: December 26 1938

Jon Sobrino, S.J. is a Jesuit Catholic priest and theologian, known mostly for his contributions to liberation theology.

He received worldwide attention in 2007 when the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a Notification for what they see as doctrines which are "erroneous or dangerous and may cause harm to the faithful."

Life

Born into a Basque family in Barcelona, Sobrino entered the Jesuit Order when he was 18. The following year, in 1958, he was sent to El Salvador. He later studied engineering at St. Louis University, a Jesuit University, in the United States and then theology in Frankfurt in West Germany. Returning to El Salvador, he taught at the Jesuit-run University of Central America in San Salvador, which he helped to found.

On November 16, 1989 he narrowly escaped being assassinated by the Atlacatl Battalion, an elite unit of the Salvadoran Army. By a coincidence, he was away from El Salvador when members of the military broke into the rectory at the UCA and brutally murdered his six fellow Jesuits, Ignacio Ellacuría, Segundo Montes, Juan Ramón Moreno, Ignacio Martin Baro, Amando López, and Joaquín López y López, and their housekeeper Elba Ramos and her 15-year old daughter Celina Ramos. The Jesuits were targeted for their outspoken work to bring about resolution to the brutal El Salvador Civil War that left about 75,000 men, women, and children dead, in the great majority civilians.

Investigated by the Vatican throughout his career as a professor of theology, he has remained an outspoken proponent of peace, joining protests in 2008 of the continued training of Latin American military officers in torture techniques at the School of the Americas at Fort Benning, GA.

Works

Sobrino's main works are Jesus the Liberator and its sequel, Christ the Liberator , along with Christology at the Crossroads , The True Church and the Poor , Spirituality of Liberation , The Principle of Mercy: Taking the Crucified People from the Cross , No Salvation Outside the Poor: Prophetic-Utopian Essays . See also Stephen J. Pope , Hope and Solidarity: Jon Sobrino's Challenge to Christian Theology .

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Jon Sobrino

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Books from Jon Sobrino

Jesus the Liberator: A Historical-Theological Reading of Jesus of Nazareth

Oscar Romero: Memories in Mosaic

Christ the Liberator: A View from the Victims

Where Is God?: Earthquake, Terrorism, Barbarity, and Hope

The Principle of Mercy: Taking the Crucified People from the Cross

Companions of Jesus: The Jesuit Martyrs of El Salvador

Christology at the Crossroads: A Latin American Approach

Systematic Theology: Perpspectives from Liberation Theology: Readings from Mysterium Liberationis

Witnesses to the Kingdom: The Martyrs of El Salvador and the Crucified Peoples

Spirituality of Liberation: Toward Political Holiness

Theology of Christian Solidarity

Mysterium Liberations: Fundamental Concepts of Liberation Theology

No Salvation Outside the Poor: Prophetic-Utopian Essays

Concilium 2003/1 Rethinking Martyrdom

Bajar de la cruz a los pobres: Cristología de la Liberación

The Life, Passion, and Death of the Jesuit Rutilio Grande

La Verdad: A Witness to the Salvadoran Martyrs

Romero de América: Martir de los pobres (Fuera de colección)

Al más pequeño de mis hermanos: una espiritualidad liberadora

La fe en Jesucristo: Ensayo desde las víctimas