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To Heaven or to Hell:

Bartolome de Las Casas's Confesionario
  • ISBN-13: 9780271080987
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By David Thomas Orique
  • Price: AUD $54.99
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  • Local release date: 14/05/2018
  • Format: Paperback 152 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Military history [HBW]
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The first complete English translation and annotated study of Bartolomé de Las Casas’s 1552 Confesionario. Explores its history and its guidelines for confessors administering the sacrament of confession to conquistadores, encomenderos, slaveholders, settlers, and others who had harmed indigenous peoples.


Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Las Casas’s Road Map to Temporal Justice and Eternal Life

1. “I, Bartolomé de Las Casas or Causas . . .”:

An Encounter with Temporal Justice’s Rough Terrain

2. “I Absolve . . .”: A First Brush with the Eternal Flames of Hell

3. “I Guarantee . . .”: A Passage to Heaven or a Ticket to Hell

Bartolomé de Las Casas’s Confesionario: “I Mandate Justice . . .”; The Last Fork in the Road to Heaven or Hell

Bibliography

Index


“David Orique has done a great service by providing a very readable and useful translation of Bartolomé de Las Casas’s 1546 Confesionario.”

—Patrick J. O’Banion, Catholic Historical Review

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