Phillip Berryman

Phillip E. Berryman (* 1938 ) is a Catholic liberation theologian and author from the United States .

Life

Berryman was ordained a priest in 1963 . He worked in a parish in Pasadena, California for two years before serving as a pastor in the El Chorrillo neighborhood of Panama City from 1965 to 1973 . In 1973 he gave up the priesthood to get married. From 1976 to 1980 he served as a representative of the American Friends Service Committee for Central America and lived in Guatemala during this time . In 1980 he returned to the USA.

He published a number of books on liberation theology and Christianity in Latin America . His introductory work Liberation Theology made a significant contribution to the reception of liberation theology in the USA. Berryman has also translated a number of books by leading representatives of liberation theology for Orbis Books, the publishing house of the Maryknoll Mission Order founded by Miguel d'Escoto - including Maria Clara Bingemer , Clodovis and Leonardo Boff , José Comblin , Ivone Gebara and Franz J. Hinkelammert - into English .

Berryman is a lecturer in the Latin American Studies Program at Temple University in Philadelphia .

Fonts (selection)

• Christians in Guatemala's Struggle. Catholic Institute for International Relations, 1984.
• The Religious Roots of Rebellion. Christians in Central American Revolutions. Orbis Books, Maryknoll, New York 1984, ISBN 0-88344-105-5 .
• Inside Central America. United States Policy in Its New Vietnam. Pluto Press, London 1985.
• Liberation Theology. Essential Facts about the Revolutionary Religious Movement in Latin America and Beyond. Meyer Stone Books, New York 1986, ISBN 0-940989-03-4 .
• Our Unfinished Business. Pantheon Books, New York 1989.
• Stubborn Hope. Religion, Politics, and Revolution in Central America. New Press, New York 1995, ISBN 1-56584-137-9 .
• Religion in the megacity. Catholic and Protestant Portraits from Latin America. Orbis Books, Maryknoll, New York 1996, ISBN 1-57075-083-1 .
• Latin American Liberation Theology. In: Miguel A. De La Torre (Ed.): Handbook of US Theologies of Liberation. Chalice Press, op. 2004, pp. 140-153.

Web links

• Phillip Berryman's homepage
• Phillip Berryman: Church and Revolution . In: NACLA Report on the Americas , March / April 1997. Retrieved February 6, 2011.
• Phillip Berryman: The Bush Doctrine: A Catholic Critique . In: America Magazine , February 23, 2004. Retrieved February 6, 2011.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Portrait of the author on the Temple University Press website . Retrieved February 6, 2011.
2. ↑ Arthur F. McGovern: On the reception of liberation theology in the USA. In: Raúl Fornet-Betancourt (ed.): Liberation theology. Critical review and perspectives for the future. 1st volume. Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 1997, p. 112–127, here p. 115.
3. ↑ Latin American Studies Program: People ( Memento of the original of July 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . The website College of Liberal Arts of Temple University . Retrieved February 6, 2011.