Gustavo Gutiérrez

(Lima, June 8, 1928-2024) Peruvian priest, belongs to the Dominican Order and holds a PhD in theology. With a long pastoral career in Peru as an advisor in the university field (Catholic University Student Movement) and in his parish of Christ the Redeemer, he has always combined this task with fruitful theological reflection. Author of Liberation Theology: Perspectives, (1971) translated into thirteen languages. He is currently a professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame, in the United States and a visiting professor at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome (Angelicum). He is also the founder of the Center for Studies and Publications and the Bartolomé de Las Casas Institute. Among his other works stands out In Search of the Poor of Jesus Christ: The Thought of Bartolomé de Las Casas (1992). He has received the Prince of Asturias Award 2003 in the Communication and Humanities category, has been named Doctor Honoris Causa by numerous universities worldwide. In mid-2010 he received the title of Master in Sacred Theology in the Dominican Order and in 2012 the National Culture Award of Peru in the Career category and has just received the “Pacen in terris” Award.

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