The Scandal of Redemption
When God Liberates the Poor, Saves Sinners, and Heals Nations
by Oscar Romero
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Pub Date Mar 24 2018 | Archive Date May 07 2018
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Description
To find out why Pope Francis is making Oscar Romero a saint, read the words that cost him his life.
”A church that does not provoke crisis, a gospel that does not disturb, a word of God that does not touch the concrete sin of the society in which it is being proclaimed – what kind of gospel is that?”
Three short years transformed El Salvador’s Archbishop Oscar Romero from a defender of the status quo into one of the most outspoken voices of the oppressed. An assassin’s bullet ended his life, but his message lives on. In March 2018 Pope Francis announced that the Catholic Church would canonize Oscar Romero, acknowledging that he is indeed a saint who was martyred for proclaiming the gospel, and that the political and social implications of that message, which so scandalized the powerful, flowed directly from Romero’s faithfulness to the teachings of Jesus.
These selections from Romero’s diaries and radio broadcasts invite each of us to align our own lives with the way of Jesus that lifts up the poor, welcomes the broken, wins over enemies, and transforms the history of entire nations.
A Note From the Publisher
Foreword by Michael Lapsley.
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| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780874861419 |
| PRICE | $12.00 (USD) |
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Alex P, Reviewer
What we find in Oscar Romero is the mind of a martyr, resolved to follow the path God had given him to the end. This is very much what he did.
What Romero reflects is love for enemies, a hunger for justice, and an advocacy for the oppressed that challenges deeply. Romero is not merely a social justice promoter, not only a preacher who found a version of the gospel that is foreign to most of us. He is a fusion of both of those things, a result much richer than the sum of its parts.
This book will make you uncomfortable. It should. You should let it. Romero lived under constant threat of murder, a citizen of a country that openly oppressed the church. Yet he did not leave. He stayed and fought in the name of both Jesus and the voiceless, the disappeared, the silenced. Many of us will never know what it's like to have a life under that kind of pressure, but we should stay intimately familiar with our brothers and sisters who are.
Dora Archie O, Reviewer
I was reading this book while listening to the BBC news in the background yesterday and was intrigued when I heard that the Vatican had declared that Oscar Romero would be canonized into a Saint.
This book provides insights on the man and his fight against an oppression, especially from a state and a people who expected him to stay silent and stick to his priestly duties. I was saddened upon reading about how he was assassinated and do hope that his legacy does live on. This was an eARC from NetGalley and I'm certain upon release, the formatting would be upgraded for a more seamless reading.
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