Winter

Patronage: “the church paid for its patronage by a small group of landowning families with the coin of complete subservience to the ruling class.”1

“Thus a sacral society was set up in the new world...God in his heaven, the King of Spain on his throne, the landlord in his 'Casa Grande', this prevailing world view was legitimized by a monolithic religion.”2


Protestants as iconoclastic towards the sacral society.3
Interview with Rubem Alves, focusing especially on Presbyterian swing to the right and expulsion of Shaull.4

D Winter, Hope in Captivity: The Prophetic Church in Latin America, (London: Epworth, 1977)