Phillip Berryman is the author of several books on both Liberation Theology and the Christian experience in Latin America. Prior to his career as an author, he worked in pastoral ministry in Panama from 1965-1973. He later worked with the American Friends Service Committee in central America. He returned to the United States in 1980 and now lives in Philadelphia with his wife. Liberation theology is an important and controversial school in the theology of the Roman Catholic Church after the Second Vatican Council. ... American Friends Service Committee logo The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Religious Society of Friends (Quaker) affiliated organization which works for social justice, peace and reconciliation, abolition of the death penalty, and human rights, and provides humanitarian relief. ...
Selected Publications
Berryman, Philip (2005). The Bush Doctrine: A Catholic Critique. In America Magazine. The National Catholic Weekly.America Magazine
Comblin, J. & Berryman, P. (2004). People of God. Orbis Books. ISBN: 1570755213
Berryman, Phillip (1996). Religion in the Megacity: Catholic and Protestant Portraits from Latin America. Orbis Books. ISBN: 1570750831.
Berryman, Philip (1995). Stubborn Hope: Religion, Politics, and Revolution in Central America. New Press. ISBN: 1565841379
Berryman, Phillip (1984). The Religious Roots of Rebellion: Christians in Central American Revolutions. Orbis Books. ISBN: 0883441055
Berryman cites the comments of leading liberation theologian, Juan Luis Segundo, who points out that "the initial formulations were the work of theologians involved not so much with the poor as with university groups and intellectuals who were becoming aware of the structural crisis of Latin America".
Berryman does make it clear that liberation theology is "revolutionary", rather than "reformist", in what it advocates for Latin America (the subtitle of the book describes liberation theology as "the revolutionary movement").
Berryman's account also reveals the utopianism implicit in the ideas and attitudes of the liberation theologians, a utopianism which goes hand-in-hand with a kind of metaphysical obsession with the evils of capitalism.
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