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Romero's Legacy: The Call to Peace and Justice (Sheed & Ward Book)
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Average Rating:  out of 7 Reviews
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Price: $17.95
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Sale: $17.45
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Manufacturer: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
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EAN (European Article Number): 9780742548220
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Pilar Hogan Closkey
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Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 261.8
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Publication Date: 2007-09-28
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Reading Level: 144
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Description: This volume brings together the annual Romero Lectures presented in Camden, New Jersey, one of America's poorest cities. The book not only remembers Romero but evokes his model of ministry and leadership to give direction to some of the thorny social justice issues confronting American Catholics.The essays are by Robert McDermott, John Hogan, Thomas Gumbleton, Gustavo Gutierrez, Helen Prejean, Diana Hayes and Daniel Groody. They address urban problems, liturgy and justice, poverty and war, the preferential option, capital punishment, race and economics, and immigration. Each chapter reminds us of the tough questions behind the option for the poor. Can we as a faith community and institution move beyond high sounding slogans and incarnate the church's social teaching? In these difficult times of war, terrorism and scandal, can we rebuild trust and be a sign of the future announced by Jesus?
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Customer Reviews
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Review Summary: Great for encouraging reflection |
Date: 2008-11-21 |
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Details: As a former full-time volunteer, I highly recommend this book for helping to tie faith to action and social justice. The lectures featured are representative of many issues touched on by Catholic Social Teaching, and showcase many talented individuals working on these issues. A difficult part of volunteering full-time can be allowing for reflection on the broader implications of the work that we do. It is easy to simply do the work day in and day out, but much more valuable to take the time to consider the connections between our faith and our service. I think this book provides a lot of context for that kind of reflection, and would be excellent for groups to use for discussion. |
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Review Summary: Comment's on "Romero's Legacy" |
Date: 2008-11-05 |
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Details: Comments on Romero's Legacy
This is a morally challenging and intellectually stimulating collection of essays which could be equally at home in a course dealing with international development as in pastoral discussions focused on community organizing. The keystone concept is the book's basic understanding of what "poverty" means - for a committed Christian, but really for all human beings who must share the planet.
Although all the essays stand out and stand on their own, I was drawn in particular to Gustavo Gutierrez' essay entitled "Liberation Theology for the Twenty-first Century." Several ideas immediately hit home: "...the preferential option for the poor forms 90 percent of liberation theology..."; "...poverty is not destiny...[it is] not misfortune ...it is an injustice"; "injustice...is the refusal to love in other words, sin"; and, finally, "the option for the poor ... for a Christian... is a conversion."
These ideas link up with other, equally resonant and provocative notions throughout the seven essays, which, taken collectively, argue for human solidarity and change at the material and spiritual levels among all peoples, but especially among Christians. The call to peace and justice which emerges from this book is not easy to ignore, nor to follow; but after reading these articles, I felt strangely like I did in the 1960s and 70s, when change seemed possible, and possibly imminent - and commitment was not a luxury, but a necessity.
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Review Summary: Romeros Legacy |
Date: 2008-03-06 |
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Details: Having been an acitvist in the 60's and 70's and then settling into the coma of "it's time for the next generation", I found Romero's Legacy inspirational. This book has renewed my commitment to work for social justice. Thank you. |
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Review Summary: Must Read Primer on Social Justice |
Date: 2008-01-29 |
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Details: Romero's Legacy is an indispensable introduction to the topic of social justice and the Christian call to follow Christ's example for the sake of the poor and disenfranchised. Through the lens of seven different writers, each committed to living faith through work on behalf of those who the secular world values least, the book makes a convincing case that faith, without works, is dead. Concise and accessible, Romero's Legacy is lends itself easily to structured study. The text is appropriate not only for high school or college curricula, but also as a learning tool for small-group study. |
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Review Summary: Romero's Legacy |
Date: 2008-01-02 |
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Details: When the biblical prophets decried unfaithfulness among the people of Yahweh, they usually cited two indicators: engaging with other gods, and failure to engage with the poor, orphans, widows and the oppressed.
In the late 1970's Archbishop Oscar Romero accepted his call to prophecy and began to complain bitterly about the oppression of the poor in El Salvador. In 1980 he was shot to death while leading a religious service.
His short life as a prophet and his death have inspired many who serve the poor, including many members of St. Joseph's Cathedral in Camden, New Jersey, home to some of the poorest people of the United States.
Among many other efforts to engage the poor, St. Joseph's began the Romero lectures in 2001, effectively reviving Romero's spirit with annual meditations on the complicated relationships of good, evil, fear, justice, compassion, revenge and the meaning of being Christian - all in relationship to the poor and oppressed.
These seven lectures, delivered yearly from 2001-2007 chronicle the oppression of the poor in today's dynamics: economic and social injustice, incarceration, (including the death penalty) racism and demonization of immigrants; and offer a religious and theological response to engaging the poor: a preference for the poor (liberation theology) and a reminder for those who would be Christian that their faith makes the poor a part of their family. As John Hogan notes, "in the New (Eucharistic) Covenant), we become blood relatives...of one another." (p. 27)
These edifying lectures can inspire the private reader, but their thrust is clearly towards our responsibility as a people to turn our collective, our structural hearts towards the poor. With Romero's spirit, the prophets of Camden are showing us the way.
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