Cartas de esperança em tempos de ditadura frei Betto e Leonardo Boff escrevem a Alceu Amoroso Lima

Abstract

In 2014, when we made the memory of the fifty years since the civil-military Brazilian dictatorship of 1964, several cultural and research initiatives helped to illuminate this fateful period in our contemporary history. My contribution was to organize the reciprocal correspondence among writers Leonardo Boff and Frei Betto with the catholic intellectual Alceu Amoroso Lima. This publication (by Editora Vozes) consists of twenty-three letters, two unpublished testimonies, ten journalistic chronicles and an essay on the role of the christian intellectual in the society. The following essay was written as a critical introduction of this same publication, enabling the reader of this magazine an overview of all this research.