The Principle of Mercy

Taking the Crucified People from the Cross

by Jon Sobrino

The essays in Sobrino's latest collection bear on one of the most pressing signs of the times: the existence of a "crucified people" the poor and oppressed of our world, whose suffering presents Christian faith with an urgent demand- that we "take them down from the cross".  Writing from the Salvadoran context, he presents a theology of mercy, reflecting on the principles of mercy and solidarity as the mode of Christian witness and discipleship in a world of conflict and suffering.

1994 Paperback 

200 pages