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With the passing of Dominican Father Gustavo Guti\u00e9rrez, who died in October<\/a> at the age of 96, the Church has lost a prophet and groundbreaking theologian who substantially enlarged its social teaching. The poor of the world have lost an advocate. And Maryknoll has lost a great friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Father Guti\u00e9rrez, a Peruvian priest who studied in France, was one of the guiding lights behind the historic 1968 conference of the Latin American bishops at Medell\u00edn, Colombia, which applied the teachings of Vatican II to the social reality of poverty and injustice in their continent. It was from that conference that a \u201cpreferential option for the poor\u201d entered the vocabulary of the Church. In 1971 he published his classic work, A Theology of Liberation<\/em><\/a>. Translated into English by Orbis Books in 1973, it became the foundation of a whole school of theology and, incidentally, the cornerstone of our publishing program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To celebrate Father Guti\u00e9rrez\u2019s 60th birthday, in 1988 Maryknoll and Orbis sponsored a symposium that attracted many of the great theologians from Latin America and around the world. By this time, his influence was without question. But his theology also raised alarms in both political and Church circles. Two documents from the Vatican scrutinized the theology of liberation, and many of his fellow theologians \u2014 though not Father Guti\u00e9rrez himself \u2014 were subjected to investigation and discipline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dominican Father Gustavo Guti\u00e9rrez gives a presentation on liberation theology at the Maryknoll seminary in 1984. (C. Martin\/Maryknoll Mission Archives\/U.S.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

What was the dangerous content of his work? Like all great theologians, Father Guti\u00e9rrez wrestled with the problem of how to talk about God in terms of the questions posed by the historical moment. For many modern theologians, that involved the meaning of faith in an age of reason and skepticism, the challenge of the \u201cnonbeliever.\u201d For Father Guti\u00e9rrez the question was how to talk about God in relation to the suffering of the poor, the challenge of the \u201cnon-person.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was not an academic question; it was posed by the reality outside his window in the parish of R\u00edmac, a poor neighborhood in Lima, where Father Guti\u00e9rrez served for many years as a pastor. This was a vantage point shared by most of the world\u2019s population, and by the Maryknoll missioners with whom he worked. Yet, for most theologians from Europe and North America this reality remained under their radar screens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For some philosophers the suffering of the innocent called into question the existence of God. But for Father Guti\u00e9rrez this reality instead called into question the injustice of the world\u2019s social structures and the shameful complaisance of the Church. The God of Life, revealed fully in Scripture and in Jesus Christ, challenged all Christians to make a \u201cpreferential option for the poor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who are the poor? In an interview some years ago, Father Guti\u00e9rrez answered this question: \u201cThe poor are those who are treated as non-persons, those who are considered insignificant from an economic, political, and cultural point of view. The poor count only as statistics; they are the nameless.\u201d But, as he went on to remind us: \u201cEven though the poor remain insignificant within society, they are never insignificant before God.\u201d And this bears concrete implications for all those who call themselves disciples of Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Father Guti\u00e9rrez\u2019s theological starting point was his pastoral work with the poor. (Lawrence Rich\/Maryknoll Mission Archives\/Peru)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Father Guti\u00e9rrez often visited Maryknoll and enjoyed close friendships with many Maryknollers who worked in Peru, including during the terrible times of the Sendero Luminoso<\/em> (Shining Path) terrorist insurgency of the 1980s and early 1990s and the government repression in response to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maryknoll Father Stephen Judd<\/a>, who served in Peru, knew him well. Father Judd remembers: \u201cWithout a doubt the enduring impact of the life of Gustavo Guti\u00e9rrez comes from the words he used for an article in 1986 during those most troublesome times in Peru: \u2018We still have time.\u2019 That phrase closely defines a pattern in Gustavo\u2019s life of always finding and having time for each person who graced his path, no matter the person\u2019s social or class standing, be they colleagues, strangers, rich or poor, bishops or anyone he just met.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Father Guti\u00e9rrez\u2019s relationship with Orbis Books extended over decades of writing and many publications, including We Drink from Our Own Wells: The Spiritual Journey of a People<\/em><\/a>; On Job: God-Talk and the Suffering of the People<\/em><\/a>; and, recently, Gustavo Guti\u00e9rrez: Spiritual Writings<\/em><\/a>, a contribution to our Modern Spiritual Masters Series. In 2023 we published a 50th anniversary edition of his seminal A Theology of Liberation<\/em>, an occasion that was celebrated widely around the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through Father Guti\u00e9rrez\u2019s work the \u201cpreferential option for the poor\u201d became a hallmark of the Latin American Church and eventually the official magisterium of the Church. It has been embraced by Pope Francis, who welcomed Father Guti\u00e9rrez to the Vatican, and who responded to his death by calling him \u201ca great man, a man of the Church who knew how to be silent when he had to be silent, who knew how to suffer when it was his turn to suffer, who knew how to carry forward so much apostolic fruit and so much rich theology.\u201d Father Judd speaks of Father Guti\u00e9rrez as a pioneer of the \u201csynodal\u201d path that Pope Francis has set for the Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At many points over the past 50 years critics wrote the epitaph for liberation theology. (Father Guti\u00e9rrez quipped that if liberation theology was dead, why was he not invited to the funeral?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nevertheless, when it came to the future of his theology, he remained remarkably detached. As he wrote in the conclusion to his great first book: \u201cAll the political theologies \u2026 are not worth one act of genuine solidarity. \u2026 They are not worth one act of faith, love, and hope, committed \u2014 in one way or another \u2014 in active participation to liberate humankind from everything that dehumanizes it and prevents it from living according to the will of God.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He would surely agree that the best way to honor his memory is not through words, but through action; his hope was that those who read his books might take one step further in friendship and solidarity with the poor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Ellsberg is the publisher of Maryknoll\u2019s Orbis Books<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


Featured Image: Joseph Hahn\/Maryknoll Mission Archives<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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