Publisher's Newsletter
Publishers Newsletter - November
Dear Friends, Β As you may know by now, our esteemed author and friend,Β Gustavo Gutierrez, died October 22, at the age of 96, in Lima. He had been ill for some time. Gustavo was not only the "father" of liberation theology, but truly the cornerstone of the Orbis program. In 1973 we published the English translation ofΒ A Theology of Liberation,Β which Christianity Today named as one of the 100 most important theological works of the twentieth century. This inaugurated a whole program of works by the greatest generation of Latin American theologians: Gustavo himself,Β Jon Sobrino, Jose Combin,Β Leonardo Boff, and many others. The highwater point of these imports was probably the volumeΒ Mysterium LiberationisΒ edited by Jon Sobrino and the martyrΒ Ignacio Ellacuria.Β ButΒ GustavoΒ continued to produce books. The most recent for us was his collaboration...