To Heaven or to Hell

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