Love in a Fearful Land

Year 1985
Type Book
Genre biography
Tradition Catholic
Original language English

For For readers who want the story of Stanley Rother and of faith under violence in Guatemala; not for readers wanting a political history of the civil war.

Should I read this?

For the general reader: 3 of 5 worth your time
For the researcher: 3 of 5 worth your time
Difficulty: 1 of 5 light

The story of Stanley Rother, the Oklahoma priest murdered in Guatemala in 1981, and of his successor, told as a reflection on love amid fear.

How it proceeds

Philosophic 0 of 5
Scriptural 1 of 5
Experiential 3 of 5
Sociological 4 of 5
Historical 3 of 5

Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.

Love in a Fearful Land: A Guatemalan Story (Ave Maria Press, 1985) tells of two American priests in Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala: Stanley Rother, a priest of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City who served the parish there and was murdered in 1981 during the country's civil war, and John Vesey, who took up the work after him. Nouwen wrote it after visiting Guatemala, and he uses their story to reflect on love and fidelity in a place ruled by fear and violence, and on the cost of staying with a people under threat. Stanley Rother was beatified in 2017.

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Catalog IDW.Q812KQ.E

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