A Violent Evangelism: The Political and Religious Conquest of the Americas

by Luis Nestor Miranda Rivera

Book Overview

In this thought-provoking book, Luis Rivera argues that evangelical reasoning and symbolism were appropriated to justify the armed seizure of people and land in the New World and to validate the conversion, peaceful or forced, of the natives. He recaptures the sixteenth-century political debates--where priests and theologians are both voices of dissent against the Spanish military conquest and fervent defenders of it. Rivera contrasts "discovery"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0664253679
• ISBN13: 9780664253677
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"