Efficacious Love Its Meaning and Function in the Theology of Juan Luis Segundo

By Theresa Low Ching

This book provides a concise, accurate introduction to the theology of Juan Luis Segundo. It is comprehensive in its brevity. After presenting Segundo in terms of the historical development of his work, the author explains the main influences on his thought, the principal categories and distinctions that distinguish his language, and the elements of method that structures the genesis of his theology. She draws from the whole corpus of his writing and by comparative analysis is able to shed light on many of Segundo's basic distinctions that befuddle many. Clarifies the fundamental categories that recur again and again in Segundo's thinking. Beyond re-presenting Segundo's theology, Lowe Ching provides a coherent and plausible interpretation of it. In each successive chapter she builds the argument that the theme of efficacious love holds the various dimensions of Segundo's theory together. Its commanding influence is reflected in his appropriation of his sources and in the structure of his method. Not only of interest for students of liberation theology and readers of Juan Luis Segundo but all those interested in the meaning of Christianity itself.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819175617
• ISBN13: 9780819175618
• Release Date: November 1989
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"