Reflections from a Cuban Context by Sergio Arce

At a firre when.our politicians are busy downgrading all things Cuban, it is particularly helpful to have these essays by Cuba's leading theolo gian made available in English. They demonstrate the ongoing vitallys not only of the theological enterprise, but of the witness of the church In Cuba today, All the conventional North Arnerican assessments of the church in Cuba, and of Cuba itself, are challenged in these pages Dr. Arce shows that those who ask. "How can one be a Christian in socialist society? must in turn be asked, "How can one be a Christian in a capitalist society?" The creative dialectic between the politicol and pastoral intentions of theology is illustrated throughout the volume In essays that range from historical and sociologicell analysis to the directly confessional.

Robert McAfee Brown Pacific School of Theology