Revelation in the Vernacular

Preface to the Series ix
Carmen M. Nanko-Fernández, Gary Riebe-Estrella, Miguel H. Díaz
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: Revelation a Long Way from Patmos xvii
Charting This Book
1. Plura Fecit Deus: Colonial Encuentros on Mona Island 1
Encuentros in Cave Eighteen 8
Media and Message 27
2. Verbum Caro Factum Est: The Vernacular and the Incarnation 31
Fray Luis and the Americas 37
What Fray Luis Read about the Americas 37
What Fray Luis Wrote about the Americas 48
Convergences: Fray Luis on the Vernacular and the Incarnation 61
In Defense of the Vernacular 61
The Impact of the Incarnation 73
3. From the Amazon to the Tiber: Words Incarnate in the World 77
Dios Te Perdone 78
Contrition and Confession 85
Seeds of the Word in Amazonia 94
Seeds of the Word: Amazonian Synod 2019 100
4. "Seeds of the Word": A Latin American Cartography 107
CELAM and the "Seeds of the Word" 107
Aparecida 2007 107
Santo Domingo 1992 110
Puebla 1979 116
Medellín 1968 120
Seeds of the Word: The Second Vatican Council 126
Justin Martyr and Seeds of the Word 136
Growing the Seeds: Amplifying Justin 142
Querida Amazonia: Dreaming in the Vernacular 146
Conclusion: Revelation, a Return to Amona 153
Index 159