Jon Sobrino, a Jesuit priest in El Salvador, is one of the original voices of liberation theology and among the most influential and prophetic theologians in the church to­day. After studies in Germany, he returned to El Salvador, where his immersion in the world of the suffering poor transformed his theology. It was like “awakening from the sleep of inhu­manity.” From this perspective came a new understanding of Jesus’s life, death, and resur­rection, and their meaning for the “crucified peoples” of the planet.