Includes bibliographical references

Contents

The Historical Jesus as God's word made flesh and liberator of the oppressed--Prologue--Introduction--The Word as emanating from God and processing God's essence--Jesus as the Christ is the word (Wisdom)--Manifested in flesh, not just the disembodied word--The word as the second "Person" (Mode) of the Divine Trinity--What the word "Persons" in the Holy Trinity truly refers to --Why there are striking similarities and differences among the Gospels--The problem of the presence in the Gospels of Bias against the Jews--The Christ according to Paul, Mark, Q and Thomas--The Kingdom of God: the focus of Jesus' mission and message--Entering God's Kingdom through Jesus' parables--Folk religion: source of resistance to foreign domination in Eastern Visayas--The need to re-write history--Elements of folk religion that resisted foreign domination--The pre-Spanish Philippines religion--Brave warrior Lapulapu and conquest by evangelization--How pre-Hispanic folk beliefs sustained the resistance--The Queen of Cebu and the origin of the prodigious child--Attempts to make Spain the origin as a strategy of conquest--Visayan Revolts inspired by folk religion--"Long live the Katipunan! long live the Santo Nino!" (1898)--Some Cebuano clergy who resisted the Americans--Summary and conclusion--Fr. Gregorio Aglipay: Revolutionary Catholic Church--Prologue--Israel's deliverance as model of nation's liberation--Orphan Farm Worker became a Priest--Fr. Aglipay joins the struggle for nation's liberation--Mabini on the Clergy: religion, corrupted by selfish interests, lacks compassion and justice--Aglipay as Military vicar General and Ecclesiastical Governor--Excommunication: an anti-people antiquated political weapon--The Filipino nation formed its Catholic Church--The Guerrilla Padre--The Founding the Aglipay Church in Cebu: 1902-1918--The importance of local history--Origin of the Aglipay Church and initial theology--Conditions and events in Cebu before 1902--How the Aglipayan Church was established in Cebu--How Bishop Hendrick save the Catholic Church.