| Author: | Jung Mo Sung |
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| Published By: | SCM Press (London) |
| Price: | £19.99 |
| ISBN: | 978 0 334 04141 |
Sung is one of the most important Latin American Liberal Theologians to have appeared in recent decades. His Desire, Market and Religion is the first in SCM’s new series, Reclaiming Liberation Theology. If the other books in this series are of the same calibre as this, we will indeed be fortunate.
Sung, a Brazilian citizen, was born in Korea and is Associate Professor of Theology at Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Sao Paulo, Brazil. The author of twelve books and numerous articles, this is his first to appear in English.
His first chapter examines the relationship between theology and economics in the 21st century. The central chapters look at problems of desire, necessity and social exclusion. Chapter four analyses the challenge to Christianity from the relationship introduced in chapter one.
Originally published in Brazil in 1998, Desire, Market and Religion includes two further articles, written in 2003 and 2006, that deal more specifically with issues of desire, economics and the struggle for the liberation of the poor in Latin America.
Having developed in his writing an agenda for Liberation Theology in a “post-socialist and globalized world”, it would be great if some at least of his other works were translated into English. Jovelino Ramos, Peter Jones and M Woodruff have served him wonderfully well in this one.You are reading Issue 43 of Ministry Today, published in August 2008.
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