Church And State: Profiles In Costly Discinpliship, Bonhoeffer, Camar, Romero
Church and State: Profiles in Costly Discipleship is a brief study of the lives of three great prophets of social justice of the twentieth century, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Helder Camara and Oscar Romero, who have inspired millions of people all over the world to fight for a better world. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran theologian. Dom Helder Camara was a Catholic Archbishop in Brazil. Oscar Arnulfo Romero was a Catholic Archbishop in El Salvador. All of them belonged to what Helder Camara called the Abrahamic minorities that continue to hope and to inspire hope even when all hope seems to have gone. Each of them found himself and his people in the teeth of the most naked and most brutal form of colonialism and/or oppression that rendered the people subhuman and left them on the margin of life. The life they lived and the legacy they left behind in the course of their attempt to liberate their people should be a constant reminder to us that the Christian must, through faithfulness to the gospel message and prompted by the basic human values and rights proclaimed by Christ, undertake the responsibility for turning history in the proper direction. The message they have for us is that the posture of pious escapism, quietism or retreat into a let-God-take-care-of-it attitude in the face of injustice and oppression would be tantamount to an irresponsible surrender to the forces of evil and a self-serving escape from the cross of discipleship
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