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Blood in the Fields

Oscar Romero, Catholic Social Teaching, and Land Reform

Matthew Philipp Whelan author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:The Catholic University of America Press

Published:30th Aug '22

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This non-fiction paperback, "Blood in the Fields" from Matthew Philipp Whelan, was published 30th August 2022 by The Catholic University of America Press.

Matthew Whelan has penned an essential monograph for scholars and graduate students interested in Romero, Catholic social thought, or, for that matter, Catholic moral theology or ecclesiology. Whelan claims that this book 'approaches Romero from a different angle than much of the existing English-language scholarship on him.' And he's right. This clearly written and well-documented book grounds Romero's work in the concrete realities of the Salvadoran context – particularly the production of landlessness and the struggles surrounding land reform in El Salvador over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In so doing, Whelan illuminates the Catholic social tradition in new ways, making clear Romero's ongoing relevance for Christian ethics and the global church today."-Journal for the Society of Christian Ethics

ISBN: 9780813236315

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 498g

346 pages