Why Are They Poor? Helder Camara in Pastoral Perspective |
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| Author:
| Regan, David |
| ISBN: | 978-3-8258-6151-3 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2003 |
| Publisher: | Transaction Publishers
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $45.95 |
Book Description:
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"When I feed the poor, they call me a saint; when I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist." ** This quotation given by the protagonist Dom Helder Camara is also the motto of this book. The book shows Camara's life from his childhood over the first pastoral steps up to him as the educationalist, bureaucrat and politician. As an archbishop for twenty years in Olinda and Recife Helder Camara is therefore referred to as "Man of the people in Recife". The "brother of the poor"...
More Description"When I feed the poor, they call me a saint; when I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist." ** This quotation given by the protagonist Dom Helder Camara is also the motto of this book. The book shows Camara's life from his childhood over the first pastoral steps up to him as the educationalist, bureaucrat and politician. As an archbishop for twenty years in Olinda and Recife Helder Camara is therefore referred to as "Man of the people in Recife". The "brother of the poor" criticised the political system in his motherland Brasil openly and by this risked his life more than once. His international reputation is still actual: moving theology of liberation, Camara provoces effects in Church and society life all over the world.