In Search of Christ in Latin America: From Colonial Image to Liberating Savior

IVP Academic is pleased to release this important work, originally published in Spanish asEn busca de Cristo en Am rica Latina, for the first time in English.

• Offers theological, historical, and cultural analysis of Latin American understandings of Christ
• Discusses the sixteenth-century Spanish Christ, popular religiosity, and developed theological reflection
• Covers the full spectrum of theological traditions in Latin America
• Examines the figure of Jesus Christ in the context of Latin American culture of the twentieth century
• Places liberation theology within its social and revolutionary context