My dear friend the priest Manuel Acosta, had the great initiative to publish his doctoral thesis in Biblical Theology (University of Deusto). I predict both success and do not give up the research effort for the good of the Church and in order to build the Kingdom of God.
Congratulations Father Manuel.
The show takes place at Auditorium "D" of the UCA at 5:30 pm . , next Monday, June 28. He publishes UCA Editores.
LIVE IN marginality: SOCIO-HISTORICAL READING OF THE GOSPEL OF LUKE
This book reads the Gospel of Luke taking into account the background of two fundamental themes that run through it: the imperial theology and the Pax Romana. The first legitimized the cult of the emperor and the imperial authority, and the second was one of Caesar's political attributes. For treatment is taken as a methodological tool sociological category of marginality. It seeks to show that she come to light vital aspects of the work, which often remain unnoticed or treated in a very secondary. Luke
community, possibly separate from Judaism, first recipient texts of the apostle, was in a difficult situation facing the empire. It was a group made up mostly of gentiles with Jewish presence, which was in a situation of weakness and marginality. That is, living their faith in the social margins, on a voluntary or involuntary, without social recognition and no political legitimacy, but to participate in society without giving up their identity.
The book, its methodology and perspective, is deeply conditioned by the author's personal experience as a Salvadoran believer in the communities of La Union and Chalatenango (El Salvador), for mutual solidarity among the innocent victims of conflict both Armed and neoliberal system, which have become exceptionally perspective to understand Jesus of Nazareth, the victim, and the Christian martyrs who, like Oscar Arnulfo Romero, was taught that the Bible can be read and take from those who live in margins of society, from the defeated.
community, possibly separate from Judaism, first recipient texts of the apostle, was in a difficult situation facing the empire. It was a group made up mostly of gentiles with Jewish presence, which was in a situation of weakness and marginality. That is, living their faith in the social margins, on a voluntary or involuntary, without social recognition and no political legitimacy, but to participate in society without giving up their identity.
The book, its methodology and perspective, is deeply conditioned by the author's personal experience as a Salvadoran believer in the communities of La Union and Chalatenango (El Salvador), for mutual solidarity among the innocent victims of conflict both Armed and neoliberal system, which have become exceptionally perspective to understand Jesus of Nazareth, the victim, and the Christian martyrs who, like Oscar Arnulfo Romero, was taught that the Bible can be read and take from those who live in margins of society, from the defeated.
