“Lee penetrates the significance that Ellacuría assigns to salvation in history. He helps us to see that the profound immersion in historical reality of Ellacuría’s thought and life is owed precisely to that role that Ellacuría attributes to the transcendence of God the liberator. In the midst of the difficult situation of conflict in his country, where he decided to live (and die), Ellacuría was able to nourish the hope of a crucified people, as he said. According to Paul Ricoeur, theology is born of the intersection between a space of experience and a horizon of hope. The keen, mature analysis of Michael Lee, which expounds a complex system of thought with great clarity, places the theology of Ignacio Ellacuría in that perspective.”—from the foreword by Gustavo Gutiérrez