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Phillip E. Berryman (born 1938) is the author of several books on both
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and the Christian experience in
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. After his
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as a Roman Catholic priest in 1963, he spent two years at a church in
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, California, before working in pastoral ministry in the Panama City barrio of El Chorrillo from 1965–1973. That year, he left the priesthood and married. He later worked with the
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, living in
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but traveling throughout Central America. He returned to the United States in 1980 and began writing the next year. He is a
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of
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at
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. He now lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Angela, with whom he has three children: Catherine, Maggie and Lizzy.


Selected publications

*Berryman, Phillip (2005). "The Bush Doctrine: A Catholic Critique." In ''America Magazine''. The National Catholic Weekl
''America Magazine''
*Comblin, J. & Berryman, P. (2004). ''People of God''. Orbis Books. *Berryman, Phillip (1996). ''Religion in the Megacity: Catholic and Protestant Portraits from Latin America''. Orbis Books. . *Berryman, Phillip (1995). ''Stubborn Hope: Religion, Politics, and Revolution in Central America''. New Press. *Berryman, Phillip (1987). ''Liberation Theology: Essential Facts About the Revolutionary Movement in Latin America - and Beyond''. Meyer Stone Books. *Berryman, Phillip (1984). ''The Religious Roots of Rebellion: Christians in Central American Revolutions''. Orbis Books. * Hinkelammert, Franz (1986). ''The Ideological Weapons of Death: A Theological Critique of Capitalism'', translated by Phillip Berryman, Orbis Books. *Berryman, Phillip (2019) ''Memento of the Living and the Dead: A First-Person Account of Church, Violence, and Resistance in Latin America.'' Resource Publications '


See also

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Subsidiarity (Catholicism) Subsidiarity is an organizing principle that matters ought to be handled by the smallest, lowest or least centralized competent authority. Political decisions should be taken at a local level if possible, rather than by a central authority. The ...
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