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About the book:
Gustavo Gutiérrez (1928–2024), is considered the ‘father’ of Liberation Theology. He was a Peruvian Catholic philosopher, theologian, and Dominican priest who was one of the founders of Latin American liberation theology. His 1971 book A Theology of Liberation (orinally published in Spanish but translated into many language) is considered pivotal to the formation of liberation theology at large. He held the John Cardinal O’Hara Professorship of Theology at the University of Notre Dame and was a visiting professor at universities in North America and Europe.
Born in Lima, Gutiérrez studied medicine and literature at the National University of San Marcos before deciding to become a priest. He began studying theology at the Theology Faculty of Leuven in Belgium and in Lyon, France. It was there that he became familiar with the works of Dominican theologians Yves Congar and M-D Chenu and the work of Joseph Cardijn, the founder of the YCW— the Young Christian Worker movement—and became familiar with Cardijn’s ‘See, Judge,Act’, Review of Life, method, which he later used with university students in Peru.
After returning from studies in Europe, he was a chaplain to university students in Peru for a number of years. It is here that he gave talks to students that became the basis of his book A Theology of Liberation. There are very few places that detail the period when he was student chaplain, the link with his writing and the influence of the Cardijn movements. In this volume there are two interviews with Gutiérrez, one by Ana María Bidegain and the other by Ángel Darío Carrero, OFM, which bring out these links.
About the editor
Hilary D Regan has been the Publisher of ATF Press Publishing Group for over 30 years and is editor of various of the ATF Press journals. He has a background in Systematic Theology
