A Violent Evangelism The Political and Religious Conquest of the Americas |
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| Author:
| Rivera, Luis N. |
| Translator:
| Herrera, Marina |
| Introduction by:
| González, Justo L. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-664-25367-7 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1992 |
| Publisher: | Westminster John Knox Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $50.00 |
Book Description:
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In this thought-provoking book, Luis Rivera argues that evangelical reasoning and symbolism were appropriated to justify the armed seizure of people and land in the New World and to validate the conversion, peaceful or forced, of the natives. He recaptures the sixteenth-century political debates--where priests and theologians are both voices of...
In this thought-provoking book, Luis Rivera argues that evangelical reasoning and symbolism were appropriated to justify the armed seizure of people and land in the New World and to validate the conversion, peaceful or forced, of the natives. He recaptures the sixteenth-century political debates--where priests and theologians are both voices of...