Ecomartyrdom in the Americas: Living and Dying for Our Common Home - Paperback

by Gandolfo (Author)

Against the background of ecological devastation in the Americas, a growing list has emerged of environmental defenders whose care for our common home has cost them their lives. In Ecomartyrdom in the Americas, Elizabeth Gandolfo explores the meaning of their witness in relation to three recent developments in Catholic theology: the expanded understanding of martyrdom to include those who die in defense of gospel values (justice, concern for the poor); the expansion of Catholic social teaching to include care for creation; and the call for interreligious dialogue and cooperation.

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RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic

ORBIS LOGO ISBN 978-1-62698-512-4

Cover design: Pone Sheehan

Cover art: "Ecomartirio, voz de la tierra - fuerza de vida" by Alexander Serpas. Permission granted by artist.

Author Biography

Elizabeth O'Donnell Gandolfo is Edith B. and Arthur E. Earley Assistant Professor of Catholic and Latin American Studies at Wake Forest University School of Divinity, Winston-Salem, NC. She is the author of The Power and Vulnerability of Love: A Theological Anthropology and co-author of Re-membering the Reign of God: The Decolonial Witness of El Salvador's Church of the Poor.