Where is God? : earthquake, terrorism, barbarity, and hope

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Label

Where is God? : earthquake, terrorism, barbarity, and hope

Title remainder

earthquake, terrorism, barbarity, and hope

Statement of responsibility

Jon Sobrino ; translated by Margaret Wilde

Creator

• Sobrino, Jon

Subject

• 2001
• Christliche Existenz
• Earthquakes -- Religious aspects | Catholic Church
• Earthquakes -- Religious aspects | Catholic Church
• El Salvador
• El Salvador Earthquakes, El Salvador, 2001
• Equality -- Religious aspects | Catholic Church
• Equality -- Religious aspects | Catholic Church
• Evangelische Theologie
• Krieg
• Leid
• Naturkatastrophe
• RELIGION / Christian Life / Social Issues
• RELIGION / Christianity / General
• Terrorismus
• Theodizee
• Ungerechtigkeit
• Gottesfrage

Language

• eng
• spa
• eng

Summary

Jon Sobrino's latest book takes its starting point from tragedy and violence: a devastating earthquake in El Salvador, the terrorist attacks of September 11, and the subsequent bombing of Afghanistan. The topic of suffering and death has traditionally raised questions about the nature and existence of God. But for Sobrino the primary question is addressed to ourselves: Who are we human beings? What does it mean to be human in a world of inequality, injustice, and barbarism? In examining the cruelty of history from the standpoint of the victims, Sobrino finds a challenge not just to find meaning, but to answer a call to personal conversion, structural change, compassion, and solidarity. Ultimately, Christian faith finds hope in the cross--a cross borne not only by Christ, but by Romero, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the poor: "Because of that hope, no matter how hard it is to live through catastrophes, terrorism and barbarity, we cannot rule out the possibility of resurrection."

Member of

• Terremoto, terrorismo, barbarie y utopía

Action

digitized

Cataloging source

N$T

Index

index present

Language note

Translated from the Spanish

LC call number

BX1795.J87

LC item number

S6613 2004eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Twentieth century religious thought