Now in a revised edition, this clear-visioned and hardhitting assessment of Church authority denounces the “Instruction on Certain Aspects of the Theology of Liberation,” proclaimed underthe direction of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, as an attack not only on liberation theology but
on all Catholic theology.
"The dictators in Latin America will receive the 'Instruction on Certain Aspects of the Theology of Liberation' with joy because it will serve their purposes. Whether it was intended to or not, this Instruction is, in fact, being turned into a political instrument in the hands of the powerful in Latin America who, in turn, are being supported by the great foreign powers in order to consolidate the system that keeps the poor submissive in favor of some of the rich. Is this the good news we might have expected from Rome?" -Edward Schillebeeckx, OP
"Segundo has asked the right questions. . . . It would be difficult to ignore him without scandal and difficult to refute him without dishonesty”. -National Catholic Reporter
Juan Luis Segundo is one of the most prolific and creative theologians of our time. Among his many books are The Liberation of Theology Jesus of Nazareth, Yesterday and Today, and several volumes in the series' A Theology for the Artisans of a New Humanity”.