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Vinicius Marinho

Vinicius Marinho is a Ph.D. student in Theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School and a former lawyer.

Essays

Race and “Corruption” in Brazil

If evil is the privation or perversion of a good, the real evil in the old-new Brazilian meaning of “corruption” is the dereliction of the divine goodness in the human neighbor and the nonfeasance neglect of God’s living presence amid the oppressed.