A prophetic voice challenges the values at the root of global capitalism.

In spite of the idealism and commitment of many, this remains a disenchanted world. In this powerful new book the great Latin American liberation theologian Jon Sobrino shows that global capitalism is driven by a cruel dynamic of oppression and greed, which inevitably dehumanizes people, destroys the human family, and threatens mother earth. Yet, he argues, it is the poor themselves, who, paradoxically, offer the only way to salvation for the world.

Jon Sobrino is a Jesuit priest.  In 1989 he narrowly escaped being assassinated by the El Salvador government; in 2007 his award-winning books Jesus the Liberator and Christ the Liberator were censured by the Vatican.