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Not to be confused with Orbis Publishing.
Orbis Books
Parent companyMaryknoll Fathers and Brothers
Founded1970
FounderMiguel D'Escoto and Philip J. Scharper
Country of originUnited States
Headquarters locationMaryknoll, New York
Key peopleRobert Ellsberg, Publisher
Official websitewww.orbisbooks.com

Orbis Books, is an American imprint of the Maryknoll order, that has been a small but influential publisher of liberation theology works, founded by Nicaraguan Maryknoll priest Miguel D'Escoto with Philip J. Scharper in 1970. It was the first to publish Gustavo Gutiérrez's seminal work A Theology of Liberation in the United States. It also published Ernesto Cardenal's The Gospel in Solentiname, and Richard Millett's Guardians of the Dynasty, a study of Nicaragua's National Guard. In 1976, they became the first publisher of future anti-apartheid activist Allan Boesak, and published Sebastian Kappen's Jesus and Freedom in 1977. In the 1980s, they carried titles by Daniel Berrigan and Phillip Berryman. Later authors include Haiti's Jean-Bertrand Aristide, South African missiologist David Bosch and 2007 Catholic Press Association prize winner Jens Söring.[1] Currently, its editor-in-chief is Robert Ellsberg.

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