The Church and Politics in Chile: Challenges to Modern Catholicism

by Brian H. Smith

Book Overview

Clarifying the growing role of the Latin American Catholic Church as an agent of social change, Brian H. Smith discusses the prophetic function of the Chilean Church during the country's metamorphosis from Conservative to Christian Democratic to Marxist to repressive military regime. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691101191
• ISBN13: 9780691101194
• Release Date: May 1982
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 386 Pages