Title: Sobrino, J. (2008). No Salvation Outside the Poor: Prophetic-Utopian Essays. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis. Pp. xii +147; ISBN: 978-1-57075-752-5; Price US$ 22; Paperback

Author: Elia Shabani Mligo

 Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Teofilo Kisanji University, P.O. Box 1104, Mbeya, United Republic of Tanzania.

Correspondence: eshamm2015@gmail.com

Jon Sobrino is a Jesuit Spanish-born renown theologian. His above-mentioned book deals with the notion of the option for the poor as a locus of salvation and what the Church should do to them. The reason provided by the book for this option is that the mystery of God has broken through in the poor, a thing which churches have in most cases trivialized. Through this mystery, “God is God of the poor” and “God is known through the poor” with their various categories (pp. 23–24). Hence, as God knew and rescued Lazarus from his situation, God is also known as an object of poverty (p.25).