{"id":9361,"date":"2018-11-16T15:26:56","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T20:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/?p=9361"},"modified":"2018-12-22T11:27:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T16:27:41","slug":"bartolome-de-las-casas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/2018\/11\/16\/bartolome-de-las-casas-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bartolom\u00e9 de las Casas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/2018\/11\/16\/bartolome-de-las-casas-2\/final-las-casas-book-cover-shct-189-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9363\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cgcm\/files\/2018\/11\/Final-Las-Casas-Book-Cover-SHCT-189--196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9363 size-medium\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/files\/2018\/11\/Final-Las-Casas-Book-Cover-SHCT-189--196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/files\/2018\/11\/Final-Las-Casas-Book-Cover-SHCT-189--768x1176.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/files\/2018\/11\/Final-Las-Casas-Book-Cover-SHCT-189--669x1024.jpg 669w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a><span>For scholars of world Christianity, Bartolom\u00e9 de las Casas is a fascinating figure. A missionary to the New World, he struggled to express a theology that could address the extraordinary conditions that colonial expansion and colonization created. In <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/brill.com\/abstract\/title\/38269\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Bartolome de las Casas, O.P.: History, Philosophy, and\u00a0Theology in the Age of European Expansion,<\/i><\/a><span> prominent scholars from such disciplines as history, Latin American studies, literary criticism, philosophy, and theology come together to think about the man and his message. <\/span><span>The volume was edited by David T. Orique, O.P. (Providence College) and Rady Rold\u00e1n-Figueroa (Boston University), who also co-wrote the introduction and have chapters of their own in the volume.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For scholars of world Christianity, Bartolom\u00e9 de las Casas is a fascinating figure. A missionary to the New World, he struggled to express a theology that could address the extraordinary conditions that colonial expansion and colonization created. In Bartolome de las Casas, O.P.: History, Philosophy, and\u00a0Theology in the Age of European Expansion, prominent scholars from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3242,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2015,1999,1997,2086],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3242"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9361"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9385,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9361\/revisions\/9385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}