ABSTRACT
A most prolific author, and the fact that he wrote just five hundred words a day, the English Roman Catholic novelist Graham Greene was an elusive, engaging, multifarious man-of-letters who was always trying to navigate the murky borderlands between belief and unbelief. Most of Graham Greene's novels have been set in the poverty and misery of the Third World. During the mid-to-late 1960s, opposition to right-wing governments grew, especially within certain sections of the Catholic Church. Many priests and nuns, inspired by liberation theology, spoke out against poverty, exploitation and lack of human rights. A Colombian Catholic priest, Father Camilo Torres, summarized his own understanding of this sociopolitical development within Christianity when he confessed. The history of criticism surrounding Greene's novel by suggesting that Father Rivas is a process theologian, even a Teilhardian process theologian, because he asserts that the world is in the process of evolution, and Christ is completing himself within it: En pasi panta Theos.
