Contemplating God, Changing the World

by Mario I Aguilar

Chilean Mario Aguilar is a professor of divinity at St. Andrews University, and experienced torture and killing, as a child, under the Pinochet regime. A Roman Catholic, his book claims explicit connection with Christian spirituality, the life of contemplation, and the Sacrament, and political activity. Several chapters are devoted to theology, in its widest sense (“The Body and Contemplation”, “The Eucharist and Politics”), but within this are exemplar in the form of portraits of Thomas Merton, Ernesto Cardenal, Daniel Berrigan, Sheila Cassidy, Desmond Tutu and Mother Teresa of Calcutta. Presumably an heir to “Liberation Theology”, the text nonetheless may surprise some by its advocacy of some persons (and concerns) outside the normal “Left Wing-Christian” heroes, and when the author confronts anti-theist Christopher Hitchens.



Reviewer: John Thomas   (31/07/08)

Paperback
Price: £12.99
Publisher:SPCK (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge)
Published:06 June 2008
ISBN:978-0-281-05832-7