Phillip Berryman

Phillip E. Berryman ( born 1938 ) is a Catholic liberation theologian and author from the U.S..

Life

Berryman was ordained a priest in 1963. For two years he worked in a parish in Pasadena (California ) before to 1973 was working as a counselor in the El Chorrillo of Panama City from 1965. In 1973 he gave up the priesthood to get married. He worked from 1976 to 1980 as the representative of the American Friends Service Committee for Central America and lived in that time in Guatemala. In 1980 he returned to the United States.

He published a number of books on liberation theology and Christianity in Latin America. His introductory work Liberation Theology has made a significant contribution to the reception of liberation theology in the United States. Berryman translated beyond for Orbis Books, the, founded by Miguel d' Escoto publisher of the Maryknoll Missionary Order, a series of books leading exponents of liberation theology - 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.

Writings (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 U.S. theologies of Liberation. Chalice Press, o.o. 2004, pp. 140-153.