Blood and Ink; Ignacio Ellacuria, Jon Sobrino, and the Jesuit Martyrs of the University of Central America

A Jesuit community's conversion to the poor, and the price they paid. In November 1989, six members of the Jesuit community of the University of Central America in San Salvador, including the rector, Igancio Ellacuria, were massacred by government troops. Twenty-five years later, this book provides the definitive account of the path that led to that fateful day, focusing on the Jesuits' prophetic option for the poor, their role in the renewal of the Salvadoran church and society, and the critical steps that caused them as Archbishop Romero would put it, to "share the same fate as the poor." Drawing on newly available archival materials and extensive interviews, Robert Lassalle-Klein gives special attention to the theological contribution of Ellacuria and Jon Sobrino, who survived the massacre, and the emergence among the community of a spirituality that recognized the risen Christ in what Ellacuria called "the crucified people of El Salvador." HalfTitle FullTitle Copyright Dedication Presentation Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Part_I 01-Grasping-the-Historical-Reality-of-El-Salvador 02-Taking-Responsibility-for-the-Historical-Reality-of-El-Salvador 03-Transforming-the-Historical-Reality-of-El-Salvador Part_II 04-The-Spiritual-Exercises-of-St.-Ignatius 05-Ellacuría’s-Philosophy-of-Historical-Reality 06-Gloria-Dei,-Vivens-Pauper 07-Mysterium-Salutis Part_III 08-Mysterium-Liberationis 09-Analogatum-Princeps-of-the-Historical-Reality-of-Jesus Conclusion