Exodus, a hermeneutics of freedom / [print]
J. Severino Croatto ; translated from the Spanish by Salvator Attanasio.
- Maryknoll, New York : Orbis Books, (c)1981.
- vi, 89 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographies and index.
I. In quest of "meaning" -- Preliminary orientation -- Bible and "liberation" -- Liberation and freedom -- A "sign of the times"? -- Plan of the analysis II. Exodus: event and word -- The exodus as "reservoir-of-meaning" -- From the event to the word -- From the event to the promise -- Analysis of the situation -- The word that precedes liberation -- The event of liberation -- The hermeneutical account -- The message III. Created for freedom -- The essence and transcendence of human beings -- Humankind's mission in the world -- The mythical worldview -- The Biblical worldview -- From the ideal to the realization -- some reflections IV. The prophet, "conscientizer" of alienated humanity -- The prophet, "critic" of Israel -- The prophet, "conscientizer" of the people -- The prophet, interpreter of history -- Prophecy and politics V. The Christ, "liberator" of the oppressed -- From the Messiah to the suffering servant -- The "liberating" attitudes of Jesus -- The "conscientizing" word of Jesus -- The announcement to the poor -- The "liberating" death of Jesus -- Christ and the law Virgin Islands Paul: radical human "liberation" -- The triple alienation -- The three alienations, according to Romans 5-7 -- From death to life -- Our Paschal liberation -- Hermeneutics of "Paschal" liberation.