![]() ![]() Later Maryknoll expanded into El Salvador (1961), Venezuela (1966), Nicaragua (1971), Brazil (1976), and Honduras (1981). In 1942 Maryknoll also opened missions in Peru and Chile, and by the end of 1943, it had opened additional missions in Mexico, Guatemala, and Ecuador. So successful has its program been that between 19 alone it taught about 3,500 missioners. It offers instruction in Spanish, Quechua, and Aymara, and trains missionaries for Maryknoll and thirty other Catholic religious orders, as well as for several Protestant groups. Since the war forced Maryknoll to cut back on that commitment, it decided to expand to Latin America, where it established missions in Bolivia in 1942 and opened its Instituto de Idiomas in Cochabamba, the largest of the order's language schools. entrance into World War II, Maryknoll mission activities were limited to the Far East. In 1920 the Maryknoll Sisters officially became a separate congregation. Readers will learn about the situation facing the Adivasi tribes of India and discover the horrific stories of Salvadorians making their way across the Mexican border into the so-called land of promise, the United States.In 1911 the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, popularly known as Maryknoll, was founded in Ossining, New York. The diverse cultural and socio-economic contexts of the different authors and their ability to write out of those contexts alerts the reader to situations of oppression too often overlooked. The sixteen chapters provide carefully researched, stimulating reflections that readily persuade the reader to ponder anew the mystery of Jesus of Nazareth, and his mission and significance for the contemporary Christian. These responses from theologians represent one attempt to answer that challenging question. So he can hardly be the true Messiah, who, after all, is supposed to do just that” (3). In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI asked Christian scholars to consider a question asked by an imaginary Jewish rabbi: “So what has your ‘Messiah’ Jesus actually brought? He has not brought world peace, and he has not conquered the world’s misery. Part I, subtitled “Jesus of Galilee: Starting Points,” offers six interpretative frameworks that are helpful for those wishing to deepen their appreciation of context and experience as the privileged entry point for doing Readers will learn about the situation facing the Adivasi tribes of India and discover the horrific stories of Salvadorians making their way across the Mexican border into the so-called land of promise, the United States. ![]() ![]() Jesus of Galilee: Contextual Christology for the 21st Century. Maryknoll, New York, US, Orbis Books 2011.
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