A major voice in liberation theology and once silenced for a year by the pope for his outspoken views,the author here presents a collection of his controversial essays attacking poverty and politic…
The issue of care serves as a critique of the agonizing situation of our civilization, but it also serves as an inspiring principle for a new paradigm of living together. This is what Boff presents…
The gospel arrived in the Americas under the sign of domination. Boff argues that a new evangelization, rooted in the culture of the oppressed, must occur under the sign of liberation..
In this classic work, Brazilian theologian Leonardo Boff examines the relevance of St. Francis to contemporary spirituality and to the construction of a new church. As a "model of gentleness and ca…
Boff, who was still a Franciscan when he wrote the book, basically challenges the Church to recall and reanimate its apostolic origins. In the "primitive" Church, there were no hierarchical distinc…
The theologians of liberation, some charge, are guilty of reducing God's supernatural gift of salvation to political movements of liberation. The authors , themselves the frequent targets of such c…