Description

When Christopher Columbus arrived in the New World in 1492, there began a new way of the cross, traced for five hundred years in the lives of the poor and oppressed peoples of the Americas.

These short meditations on the stations-by such figures as Gustavo Guiterrez, Enrique Dussel, Leonardo Boff, Helder Camara, Elsa Tamez, and Jon Sobrino-reflect on the passion of Christ against the background of conquest.

They write, as Virgil Elizondo says in his preface, to "invite our readers to take this journey with us, to share our suffering, to experience our crucifixion, and to taste in anticipation our Easter joy. We invite all-rich and poor, black and brown and white, clerics and lay people-to a profound conversion that will stimulate us to build a better world in the Americas, a world of the new humanity enjoying justice, freedom, and love."

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Opening Meditation: Only My Death Can Express My Life
Chapter 2 Station I: Jesus Prays in the Garden of Olives
Chapter 3 Station II: Jesus is Betrayed by Judas and Arrested
Chapter 4 Station III: Jesus is Condemned to Death
Chapter 5 Station IV: Jesus is Denied by Peter
Chapter 6 Station V: Jesus is Handed Over to Pilate
Chapter 7 Station VI: Jesus is Scourged and Crowned with Thorns
Chapter 8 Station VII: Jesus Carries his Cross
Chapter 9 Station VIII: Simon of Cyrene Helps Jesus Carry His Cross
Chapter 10 Station IX: Jesus Meets the Women of Jerusalem
Chapter 11 Station X: Jesus is Crucified
Chapter 12 Station XI: Jesus Promises His Kingdom to the Good Thief
Chapter 13 Station XII: Jesus on the Cross Gives His Mother to His Disciple
Chapter 14 Station XIII: Jesus Dies on the Cross
Chapter 15 Station XIV: Jesus Is Laid in the Tomb
Chapter 16 Closing Meditation

Product details

Published Jun 03 2002
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 128
ISBN 9780742513549
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions 212 x 139 mm
Series Celebrating Faith: Explorations in Latino Spirituality and Theology
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Virgil Elizondo

Contributor

Leonardo Boff

Contributor

Larry Boudreau

Contributor

Enrique Dussel

Contributor

Uriel Molina

Contributor

Pablo Richard

Contributor

Samuel Ruiz

Contributor

Jon Sobrino

Contributor

Elsa Tamez

Contributor

Aiban Wagua

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