Orbis Books, is an American imprint of the Maryknoll order. It has been a small but influential publisher of liberation theology works. It was founded by

Nicaragua Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Managua is the coun ...

n Maryknoll priest

Miguel D'Escoto Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann (February 5, 1933 – June 8, 2017) was an American-born Nicaraguan diplomat, politician and Catholic priest of the Maryknoll Missionary Society. As the President of the United Nations General Assembly from September 2 ...

with Philip J. Scharper in 1970. Its editor-in-chief is Robert Ellsberg.

Major works

It was the first to publish Gustavo Gutiérrez's ''A Theology of Liberation'' in the United States. It also published Ernesto Cardenal's ''The Gospel in Solentiname'', and Richard Millett's ''Guardians of the Dynasty'', a study of Nicaragua's National Guard. In 1976, they became the first publisher of future anti-

apartheid Apartheid (, especially South African English: , ; , "aparthood") was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. Apartheid was ...

activist Allan Boesak. It published

Sebastian Kappen Sebastian Kappen (4 January 1924 – 30 November 1993) was an Indian Jesuit priest and liberation theologian. Formation and studies Born into a traditional Nasrani family in Kodikulam, Travancore, during the British Raj, Kappen entered the ...

's ''Jesus and Freedom'' in 1977. In the 1980s, they carried titles by Daniel Berrigan and

Phillip Berryman Phillip E. Berryman (born 1938) is the author of several books on both liberation theology and the Christian experience in Latin America. After his ordination as a Roman Catholic priest in 1963, he spent two years at a church in Pasadena, Californ ...

. Later authors include Haiti's

Jean-Bertrand Aristide Jean-Bertrand Aristide (born 15 July 1953) is a Haitian former Salesian priest and politician who became Haiti's first democratically elected president. A proponent of liberation theology, Aristide was appointed to a parish in Port-au-Prince ...

, South African missiologist David Bosch and 2007 Catholic Press Association prize winner

Jens Söring Jens Söring, usually rendered in English as Jens Soering, (born 1 August 1966, in Bangkok, Thailand) is a German who, in 1990, was convicted in Virginia, United States of America of murdering the parents of his then-girlfriend, Elizabeth Hay ...

. Orbis also published

Walter Wink Walter Wink (May 21, 1935 – May 10, 2012) was an American biblical scholar, theologian, and activist who was an important figure in Progressive Christianity. Wink spent much of his career teaching at Auburn Theological Seminary in New York ...

's ''Peace is the Way'', an anthology of writings on nonviolence by the US branch of the Fellowship of Reconciliation.Dan Buchanan, "Peace is the Way: Writings on Nonviolence from the Fellowship of Reconciliation (Review)". ''

Sojourners ''Sojourners'' is a progressive monthly magazine and daily online publication of the American Christian social justice organization Sojourners, which arose out of the Sojourners Community. It was first published in 1971 under the original titl ...

'' Magazine. January 1, 2001

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