Creative Minorities

Edited by Luis Granados and Ignacio de Ribera-Martin | Prologue by Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. | Translated by Juan Carlos Gavancho Hurtado and Michael J. Miller Normally it is creative minorities who determine the future and, in this sense, the Catholic Church must understand itself as a creative minority that has a heritage of values that are not something of the past, but a very living and current reality. (Pope Benedict XVI) Creative Minorities: The Leaven of Christianity shows the richness of the late Pope Benedict XVI's intuition and its implications for the Church and the world.  What is the Church? In difficult times for the Church in the West, Pope Benedict XVI offered a light: the Church is always—and has always been—a “creative minority.” Featuring a new Prologue by Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., and edited by Luis Granados and Ignacio de Ribera Martin (both priests of the Disciples of the Hearts of Jesus and Mary), this volume develops the Pope’s intuition from different perspectives. What makes a minority creative? What distinguishes the “creative minority” from the ghetto, the power lobby, or the nostalgic refugee? What are the stages and virtues of this minority? This is God's style, both in the Old and New Testament: he chooses a people—a few—to reveal himself to all. The two terms of the concept, minority and creative, are fundamental. Both evoke the very root of the Christian faith, which is called to be leaven, salt and light.    Luis Granados holds a doctorate in moral theology and is currently Director of Stella Maris, at Mater Salvatoris College Preparatory School, in Stamford, Connecticut; adjunct professor at St. Joseph Seminary & College, in New York; and fellow professor at Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio. Ignacio de Ribera Martin holds degrees in theology and classical philology, as well as a degree and doctorate in philosophy, and is currently associate professor of philosophy at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.   Paperback: 256pp. ISBN: 978-1685953706