The reader of this book will find a profound examination and revision of the missionary caritas as the fundamental spark of the ministry's Christology, of the ministry's biblical theology, and of the configuration of that same ministry through the whole of its history. The Author, a Spanish Jesuit theologian, professor, researcher, and author of numerous books, is uncompromising as he engages us in this timely and necessary discussion of the identity and spirit of Christianity in the 21st century. A careful review of the Church's history, however, shows a structuring of the ordained ministry influenced by a progressive privileging of the clergy within the Church, which, as the author explains, must be overcome today by substituting