Bartolome de las Casas (1484-1566) is the key to the quincentenary debate--should we celebrate or should we weep? His was the main cry against the tragic fate of the Indians, the main cry for reform. Until now, he has been known only from incomplete sources. This book begins his rediscovery in 1992. Parish's introduction shows that Las Casas was barely 18 when he came to America in 1502, spending the next decade as a planter in the West Indies. He befriended the natives, but saw them cruelly massacred and exploited by ...
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Bartolome de las Casas (1484-1566) is the key to the quincentenary debate--should we celebrate or should we weep? His was the main cry against the tragic fate of the Indians, the main cry for reform. Until now, he has been known only from incomplete sources. This book begins his rediscovery in 1992. Parish's introduction shows that Las Casas was barely 18 when he came to America in 1502, spending the next decade as a planter in the West Indies. He befriended the natives, but saw them cruelly massacred and exploited by conquistadors. In 1514 the mounting shock turned him into a defender of the Indians from then until his death at 82. As a priest-colonist, a Dominican friar, a bishop, he fought at court in the New World for their full human rights, using his first book, The Only Way, to great effect. The earliest version produced a papal encyclical on behalf of the Indians, the second motivated an emperor to issue laws protecting them, the third taught a generation of Spanish scholars. Sullivan's translation of The Only Way to Draw All People to a Living Faith lets us hear Las Casas in full at last. The familiar horrors and denunciations are all there, but so is a gentle voice filled with compassion and yearning for peace. For centuries, the treatise influenced mission theory and practice in many lands; modern writers studied its misiology and its relation to his own mission experiment. But this new version--the lost opening reconstructed, the massive proof texts banished, the original form restored--reveals the doctrine that guided Las Casas' career. In it, he pleads for the way of Christ: evangelization by peaceful charity and respect not by "fire and the sword." Sullivan has given us abrilliant rendering of the powerful central version Fray Bartolome composed at Oaxaca in 1539 to change the conscience of Christendom. The work makes the same appeal to conscience today.
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Used-Good in Good jacket. Good Condition, good dust jacket. A used book with a normal amount of wear. All pages are present. Pages may have moderate highlighting, underlining, stains or other marks.
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Good. 282p. A black cloth hardcover ex-library book in original binding. Label on spine. Labels, stamps, card pocket, and pasted-in jacket panels on endpapers; stamp on title page. Otherwise, very good condition with text clean and binding tight. Edited by Helen Rand Parish; Translated by Francis Patrick Sullivan, S.J. Writings of the Dominican friar and advocate for enslaved Indigenous peoples under the Spanish encomienda system.
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Good+ in Good jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. vi, 282pp. Short ink-inscription and call letters in pencil to first page. No library markings to cloth. Aside from internal library treatments, text clean. Binding sound. Tiny tears, minor creases, and medium wear to extremities of dust-jacket. A nice, clean, sound copy.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 600grams, ISBN: 9780809103676.
I put a "No" in recommending to a friend unless the friend was really into Las Casas. This book is for those who want to delve into the thinking of Las Casas and learn how he argued his points. Not for casual reader, but for those with knowing more about him, this is a great book.
Also, Helen Rand Parish was responsible for great detective work in determining the correct year of Las Casas's birth.
