Liberation Through Reconciliation ─ Jon Sobrino's Christological Spirituality

In the past one hundred years alone, more than 200 million people have been killed as a consequence of systematic repression, political revolutions, or ethnic or religious war. The legacy of such violence lingers long after the immediate conflict. Drawing on the author's experiences of his native El Salvador, Liberation through Reconciliation builds on Jon Sobrino's thought to construct a Christian spirituality and theology of reconciliation that overcomes conflict by attending to the demands of truth, justice, and forgiveness.

O. Ernesto Valiente received his PhD from the University of Notre Dame and is Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology at Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. He has recently published "Renewing the Theology of Martyrdom,"Irish Theological Quarterly 79 (2014), "From Conflict to Reconciliation: Discipleship in the Theology of Jon Sobrino"Theological Studies 74 (2013) and "From Utopia to Eu-topia: The Mediation of Christian Hope in History," inHope: Promise, Possibility, and Fulfillment.