Across Peru, Brazil, and Nicaragua in the 1960s through the 1980s, Gustavo Gutiérrez, Leonardo Boff, and Jon Sobrino articulated a theology born of reading Scripture with the poor. On the Nicaraguan archipelago of Solentiname, Ernesto Cardenal gathered a community of campesinos and artists whose collective gospel conversations became the four volumes of The Gospel in Solentiname and a tradition of primitivist painting still practiced today.
“If there is no friendship with the poor and no sharing of the life of the poor, then there is no authentic commitment to liberation, because love exists only among equals.”
— GUSTAVO GUTIÉRREZ
