Rubem Alves

Rubem Azevedo Alves (15 September 1933 – 19 July 2014) was a Brazilian Presbyterian theologian, philosopher, educator, writer and psychoanalyst. Alves was one of the founders of Latin American liberation theology.

Life Alves was born on 15 September 1933, in Boa Esperança, Minas Gerais, Brazil. military coup against the democratically elected Brazilian government. At the time, the new military regime was attempting to purge Brazil of communist sympathizers. The Presbyterian Church of Brazil provided the new government with the names of six intellectuals to serve as scapegoats and to avert persecution themselves. Immediately upon his return to Brazil, Alves went into hiding. More than forty accusations were made against Alves and others, including claims that they taught that Jesus was sexually involved with a prostitute, celebrated when their children denounced Americans, and were funded by the Soviet Union. Alves reports that these accusations were ineffective, saying, "the positive side of the document was that it was so virulent, that not even the most obtuse could believe that we were guilty of so many crimes." Alves continued to elude government authorities. Within two months of his arrival in Brazil, he returned to the United States covertly with assistance from Brazilian Freemasons and the Presbyterian Church in the United States, which secured an invitation from Princeton Theological Seminary for him to commence doctoral studies there.

His book, The Poet, The Warrior, The Prophet, is an important text in the field of theopoetics.

During the last years of his life, Alves wrote several children's books. Alves died on 19 July 2014, in Campinas, Brazil.

Legacy Alves has been described as an "unsung hero", and is often omitted from brief descriptions of liberation theology.

Books

International

246 pages. Revised version of his doctorate thesis, originally titled Towards a Theology of Liberation.

246 pages.

207 pages. 231 pages. 269 pages. 192 pages.

215 pages. 79 pages. 85 pages. 143 pages. 144 pages. 148 pages. 203 pages. 199 pages. 191 pages. 95 pages. 182 pages. (translation of As Melhores Crônicas de Rubem Alves) 212 pages. (translation of Retorno e Terno) 205 pages. (translation of Concerto para Corpo e Alma)

In Portuguese 120 pages. 199 pages. 169 pages. 190 pages. 133 pages. 290 pages. 172 pages. 73 pages. 213 pages. 119 pages. 80 pages. 87 pages. 108 pages. 119 pages. 146 pages. 109 pages. 143 pages. 100 pages. 169 pages. 95 pages. 103 pages. 224 pages. 164 pages. 111 pages. 109 pages. 128 pages. 103 pages. 160 pages.

148 pages. 214 pages. 261 pages.