Background
Leonardo Boff was born on 14 December 1938 in Concórdia, Santa Catarina, Brazil.
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Examines whether Catholicism should be adapted to suit an individual country's culture and analyzes the structure of the Catholic Church.
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Who is Jesus Christ for us today? By what names do we call him? Just as the early Christians developed different names for Jesus, so too must we discover the meaning of Jesus for our day. Jesus Christ Liberator is Boff's distinctive contribution to contemporary Christology. Boff writes, Christology thought out and vitally tested in Latin America must have characteristics of its own. The attentive reader will perceive them throughout this book. The predominantly foreign literature that we cite ought not to delude anyone. It is with preoccupations that are our alone, taken from our Latin American context, that we will re-read no only the old texts of the New Testament but also the most recent commentaries written in Europe."
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Taking cues from science as well as mystical traditions, Boff finds that interrelatedness forms the key to a new paradigm. He critiques common approaches to ecology and discerns in the growing ecological awareness, and in the search for spirituality and meaning, the seeds of an alternative to a world of alienation, inequality and escalating natural destruction.
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The presence of the Holy Spirit runs throughout the Scriptures, from the story of Creation, through the inspiration of the prophets, the incarnation and mission of Jesus, and the birth of the church at Pentecost. But as Leonardo Bo shows, the Spirit is also interwoven in the mysterious origins of the universe. And that Spirit continues to be revealed through the history of humanityin the spirit of renewal, change, and prophecy,in the history of the church, and in the struggles of our own time. For Bo ff, this theme takes on special urgency in a time of ecological peril, religious conflict, and oppression of the poor. As Boff writes, when the Spirit comes, the corpses are filled with life and the wilderness becomes a garden. th e poor are granted justice, the sick are restored to health, and we who are all sinners receive forgiveness and grace. is is our faith, and more than that, it is our undying hope.
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In this book, Brazilian Leonardo Boff, Franciscan priest and professor of theology, joins other contemporary theologians in defending both the truth and the practical value of the doctrine of the Trinity. For Boff, the community of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is not only the truth about God; it is also the prototype of human community dreamed of by those who wish to improve society, the model for any just, egalitarian (while respecting differences) social organization. Frequently expressing agreement with Moltmann's 'The Trinity and the Kingdom', Boff argues that true and relevant Trinitarian faith must begin not with the oneness, but with the threeness of God; not with theistic speculation about God as the solitary One, but with openness to the self-revelation of God as a community or society of divine persons, who are what they are in their co-existence, co-relatedness, and self-surrender to each other. Boff also suggests how a social doctrine of the Trinity enables us to overcome the conflict between individualistic capitalism and collectivistic socialism, oppressor and oppressed, male and female, church authorities and church members.
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Description: Virtues are values underlying human practices. We are at the dawn of a new era, an era of global ethics requiring some core virtues. These core virtues are hospitality, co-living, respect, tolerance, and communality. Book 1 treats the virtue of hospitality that is a right and a duty of all, and which is still to be discovered and practiced unconditionally. Book 2 deals with the virtues of co-living, respect, and tolerance, which are important virtues if the peoples of the earth are to live together in peace in our common home, the planet Earth. Finally, Book 3 deals with the virtue of communality; this is a very important virtue because a large part of humanity experiences hunger and thirst, which is something scandalous in this day and age, and which demonstrates a lack of humanity, because we possess the technical means and political framework to resolve this situation. If these core virtues become a reality, they will transform human practices into something beneficial both to human beings and to the planet Earth, our common home. Endorsements: ""Leonardo Boff touches on a theme which is central to human flourishing and is a timely reminder of the need for the implementation of the practical politics of human connectedness. The exploration of the necessary processes to achieve hospitality, co-living, respect, tolerance, and communality is a key challenge of our age, and this book makes a positive contribution to that goal."" --Christopher Rowland Dean Ireland Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture University of Oxford ""Leonardo Boff spins the spirituality of St. Francis into an ecological, cosmic, political--albeit human--vision of what our world could become if we are willing to practice hospitality, co-living, tolerance, respect, and feasting together. As a pastor whose church is earth-friendly and becoming green with solar panels, I found in Boff's Virtues a credible, sustainable spirituality for all peoples of faith to meet the challenges of th twenty-first century. Very few theologians weave environmental and social justice into a unified holistic vision as Boff has accomplished here."" --Robert Shore-Goss Senior Pastor/Theologian MCC in the Valley About the Contributor(s): Leonardo Boff was born in Brazil in 1938 and received a doctorate from the University of Munich in Germany in 1970. For the following twenty years, he worked as Professor of Theology at the Franciscan School for Philosophy and Theology in Petropolis, Brazil. During the 1970s, he and Gustavo Gutiérrez helped to define liberation theology. Since 1993 he has been a professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, where he is now Emeritus Professor of Ethics, Philosophy of Religion, and Ecology. He is also a member of the international Earth Charter Commission. Boff is the author of more than seventy books, including Saint Joseph: The Father of Jesus in a Fatherless Society. In 2001 he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award (which is considered to be the ""alternative"" Nobel Prize) by the Swedish Parliament. Alex Guilherme teaches in the Department of Philosophy at Durham University.
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In a series of clear, short chapters, Leonardo Boff unpacks the mysteries of Trinitarian faith, showing why it makes a difference to believe that God is communion rather than solitude. Instead of God as solitary ruler standing above a static universe, Christian belief in the Trinity means that at the root of everything there is movement, an eternal process of life, outward movement, and love. Boff shows how the Holy Trinity is, among other things, the image of the perfect community and the image of the church in its ideal form: not a hierarchy of power, but a community of diverse gifts and functions. Ideal for study or personal reflection.
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Leonardo Boff was born on 14 December 1938 in Concórdia, Santa Catarina, Brazil.
He studied at the Franciscan Theological Institute in Petropolis and took his doctorate in theology at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich.
He became a Roman Catholic priest of the Franciscan order, and in 1971 professor of systematic theology at the Petropolis institute. His best known book is Jesus Christ Liberator: A Critical Christology for Our Time (1972). Other works include Salvation and Liberation (1979), written with his brother Clodovis Boff, a priest of the Servite order; Church: Charism and Power (1980); St. Francis: A Model for Human Liberation (1984); The Gospel of the Cosmic Christ (1989); and Ecology and Spirituality (1991). Boff's writings are the most important expression of what is called liberation theology. He took his starting point from Jesus' eschatological proclamation: "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand" (Mark 1:15). This text has been variously interpreted. Does it refer to a future Day of Judgment? Does it express first-century Jewish hopes for freedom from Roman rule? Can the Church itself be the kingdom that Jesus came to establish? Boff found the explanation in another Gospel text, where Jesus refers to himself the words of Isaiah: "The Spirit of the Lord . .. has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. .. . to set at liberty those who are oppressed" (Luke 4:18). He interpreted Jesus' proclamation as a call for the empowerment of the victimized and the building of a just and fraternal society. He wrote: "Our definitive, eschatological salvation is mediated, anticipated and rendered concrete in the partial liberations that take place at every level of historical reality. "Boff's theology is thus both eschatological and supportive of the revolutionary transformation of oppressive political and economic structures. It also accepts a sophisticated hermeneutic: a recognition that thought is not purely neutral and objective, but rather depends upon the thinker's life situation. He wrote: "it is the overall context of dependence and oppression at every level of life that prompts Christology in Latin America to ponder and love Jesus Christ as Liberator. "Censored, silenced, and continuously investigated by the Vatican, Boff worked patiently for two decades within the institutional Church. On June 28, 1992, he announced that the restrictions placed upon him had at last become too tight; he resigned from the priesthood and from the Franciscan order, to continue his work as a Roman Catholic layman.
(The presence of the Holy Spirit runs throughout the Scrip...)
(In this book, Brazilian Leonardo Boff, Franciscan priest ...)
(Who is Jesus Christ for us today? By what names do we cal...)
(In a series of clear, short chapters, Leonardo Boff unpac...)
(Examines whether Catholicism should be adapted to suit an...)
(Taking cues from science as well as mystical traditions, ...)
(Description: Virtues are values underlying human practice...)
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Boff became one of the best known supporters of the early liberation theologians. He was present in the first reflections that sought to articulate indignation against poverty and marginalization with promissory discourse of the faith, leading to liberation theology. He continues to be a controversial figure in the Catholic Church, primarily for his sharp criticism of the church's hierarchy, which he sees as "fundamentalist", but also for his past critical support of communist régimes.
Boff is critical of secular power as well of U. S. foreign policy. He opposed the Iraq War and considered George W. Bush and Ariel Sharon's leadership to be similar to that of "fundamentalist terrorist states. " He also criticizes despotic rulers in the Middle East: "Those [emirs and kings] are despotic, they do not even have a constitution. Though extremely rich, they maintain the people in poverty. "
Boff joined the international group of Catholic Scholars who in 2012 issued the Jubilee Declaration on reform of authority in the Catholic Church.