Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor
(Ecology & Justice Series) by
Leonardo Boff
Through Franciscan Spirituality This Holy Friar Examines Our Devastation Of Nature In
His Native Brazil And Its Impact On Poor
Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor represents Leonardo Boffs most
systematic effort to date to link the spirit of liberation theology with the
urgent challenge of ecology. Focusing on the threatened Amazon of his
native Brazil, Boff traces the ties that bind the fate of the rain forests with
the fate of the Indians and the poor of the land. In this book, readers will
find the keys to a new, liberating faith.
Personal Review: Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor (Ecology &
Justice Series) by Leonardo Boff
Saint Francis most spoke and lived, based on the Gospel mandates, in
intimate connection with Nature and with the poor. Through close and
systematic reflection on his Franciscan spirituality, this holy and
internationally influential Franciscan Friar, Father Leonardo Boff, here

draws these threads together, teaching us how the suffering of the earth is
also the suffering of the poor and the suffering of each one of us.
Through hearing the earth cry we are liberated to a new appreciation of our
Faith, and of our call to action, in this case on behalf of the poor and the
indigeous people who are further dispossessed through the destruction of
the Amazonian environment.
In fact, near the end of his exhortation The Sacrament of Charity:
Sacramentum Caritatis, Our Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI cries out for
us to follow our Euicharistic compulsion to alter those economic structures
which leave the poor dispossessed and the cosmic Creation destroyed.
This excellent ecological, economic and theological treatise first found
publication by the great Catholic printing house Orbis Books in its Ecology
and Justice Series ten years ago and now achieves its tenth printing. This
indicates that the total number of volumes published by now reaches the
six digits. Those volumes then fill seminary libraries, parish libraries,
personal libraries and are resold through services such as amazon,
bringing the total number of readers to a whole new magnitude. How many
works of modern theology reach and inspire so many voluntary and eager
readers?
The principles and applications developed here by the great Catholic
Theologian Leonardo Boff do not age but only grow more urgent. Perhaps
this book is best received within a Catholic college with a professor
capable of guiding students to comprehension and action; alone the reader
armed with only prior paradigms may grow as lost as I would in the former
Brazilian rain forest.
Nevertheless this caveat should not discourage anyone from purchasing
and studying very carefully this excellent and systematic study presented
with Father Boff's consistent academic and compassionate style, speaking
fomr both the large heart and keen intellect which God and the finest
scholastic theological training gave him.
Please see the vast body of Father Boff's work, including recently his
beautiful meditations on our basic prayers: Praying With Jesus And Mary:
Our Father, Hail Mary and Lord Is My Shepherd: Divine Consolation in
Times of Abandonment.
But please do not forget this profound and systematic work as well, now so
readily available here upon the amazon. In fact it is most meaningful to
purchase such a work which treats of the devastation of the Amazon basin
here upon this very source!
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