Jon Sobrino, M. Shawn Copeland, Peter Ireland, Roberto Goizueta
Jon Sobrino, SJ, is a proponent of liberation theology, defined by the WorldWeb Online Dictionary as "a form of Christian theology (developed by South American Roman Catholics) that emphasizes social and political liberation as the anticipation of ultimate salvation." A native of Spain, Fr. Sobrino entered the Society of Jesus in 1957 when he was 18. He has spent most of his adult life in El Salvador teaching at the University of Central America, a Jesuit institution that he helped found. He was traveling outside the country in 1989 and escaped death when six other Jesuits in his rectory were assassinated during the violent civil war that engulfed El Salvador during the 1980s. He was in the news last year when the Vatican responded to his book Jesus the Liberator (Orbis Books, 1994) and other writings with an official “Notification,” stating that Sobrino’s works “contain notable discrepancies with the faith of the Church.”
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