scholarly journals Vigencia de la teología latinoamericana de la liberación: a cinco décadas de su origen

2021 ◽  
Vol 71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Costadoat
Keyword(s):  
Gustavo Gutierrez

En este artículo se da cuenta de aquello que perdura como novedoso de la teología latinoamericana de la liberación a cinco décadas de sus comienzos. El texto sitúa a esta teología en continuidad y como expresión de la recepción latinoamericana del Concilio Vaticano II. Los teólogos de la liberación han convenido en pensar que en Medellín, 1968, comenzó una apropiación creativa del Concilio, que consistió, en pocas palabras, en una opción por los pobres. El caso es que, si en los comienzos esta teología puso el énfasis en la necesidad de hacer cambios sociales y económicos estructurales en sociedades injustas, con el correr del tiempo ha descubierto la importancia de los pobres como sujetos de su reflexión y liberación. Ha sido muy significativo, en este sentido, descubrir el enorme valor de la lectura popular de la Biblia realizada en las comunidades eclesiales de base. Este artículo revisa, por lo mismo, el método de la teología de la liberación. Con el correr de los años se ha hecho necesario actualizar el planteamiento de Gustavo Gutiérrez para precisar lo esencial e incorporar el aporte, por ejemplo, de la teología feminista y de la teología india. Estas, bien distintas en cuanto a sus sujetos y temáticas, comparten sin embargo el ser teologías inductivas de colectivos que descubren su opresión. En una última sección, el artículo describe la que sería una novedad mayor, la concepción de la revelación. Varios teólogos no solo acogen el círculo hermenéutico de las teologías contextuales, sino que postulan que Dios continúa revelándose en el presente histórico con una Palabra nueva, la que se hace oír en el clamor de los pobres por su liberación.

scholarly journals The Solved Conflict: Pope Francis and Liberation Theology

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ole Jakob Løland
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
The Public ◽  
Gustavo Gutierrez ◽  
Global Church

AbstractThe battle for meaning and influence between Latin American liberations theologians and the Vatican was one of the most significant conflicts in the global Catholic church of the twentieth century. With the election of the Argentinean Jorge Mario Bergoglio as head of the global church in 2013, the question about the legacy of liberation theology was actualized. The canonization of Archbishop Oscar Romero and the pope’s approximation to the public figure of Gustavo Gutiérrez signaled a new approach to the liberation theology movement in the Vatican. This article argues that Pope Francis shares some of the main theological concerns as pontiff with liberation theology. Although the pope remains an outsider to liberation theology, he has in a sense solved the conflict between the Vatican and the Latin American social movement. Through an analysis of ecclesial documents and theological literature, his can be discerned on three levels. First, Pope Francis’ use of certain theological ideas from liberation theology has been made possible and less controversial by post-cold war contexts. Second, Pope Francis has contributed to the solution of this conflict through significant symbolic gestures rather than through a shift of official positions. Third, as Pope Francis, the Argentinian Jorge Mario Bergoglio has appropriated certain elements that are specific to liberation theology without acknowledging his intellectual debt to it.

scholarly journals Urban social movements in South Africa today: Its meaning for theological education and the church

2017 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan F. De Beer
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Theological Education ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Urban Social Movements ◽  
Gustavo Gutierrez ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City ◽  
The Church

In the past decade, significant social movements emerged in South Africa, in response to specific urban challenges of injustice or exclusion. This article will interrogate the meaning of such urban social movements for theological education and the church. Departing from a firm conviction that such movements are irruptions of the poor, in the way described by Gustavo Gutierrez and others, and that movements of liberation residing with, or in a commitment to, the poor, should be the locus of our theological reflection, this article suggests that there is much to be gained from the praxis of urban social movements, in disrupting, informing and shaping the praxis of both theological education and the church. I will give special consideration to Ndifuna Ukwazi and the Reclaim the City campaign in Cape Town, the Social Justice Coalition in Cape Town, and Abahlali baseMjondolo based in Durban, considering these as some of the most important and exciting examples of liberatory praxes in South Africa today. I argue that theological education and educators, and a church committed to the Jesus who came ‘to liberate the oppressed’, ignore these irruptions of the Spirit at our own peril.

Theologies of Salvation from the Eighteenth to Twenty-First Centuries

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Karl Barth ◽  
Karl Rahner ◽  
Friedrich Schleiermacher ◽  
John Wesley ◽  
Subsequent Growth ◽  
Hans Urs Von Balthasar ◽  
Gustavo Gutierrez ◽  
Fourth Part ◽  
Book Covers ◽  
Unique Context

This overview chapter for the fourth part of the book covers theologies of salvation from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries. It covers John Wesley, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Karl Barth, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Karl Rahner, and Gustavo Gutiérrez. In the overview chapter, Ryan Reeves explains that the unique context of this period of time provides an intriguing backdrop for competing theologies of salvation. The dawn and subsequent growth of modernity and the rise in rational, empirical thinking in this period reveal the need for theologians to re-examine both the nature and effects of salvation.

Terror and Awe

2020 ◽  
pp. 279-304
Author(s):  
Niall H. D. Geraghty
Keyword(s):  
Atacama Desert ◽  
Gustavo Gutierrez ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Struggles ◽  
The Universe

In Patricio Guzmán’s Nostalgia de la luz(2010), the relatives of those imprisoned and disappeared in Chile’s Atacama desert search for the bodies of their loved ones. Simultaneously, archaeologists examine traces of the pre-Columbian societies that inhabited the area and astronomers explore the origins of the universe by analyzing light emitted from distant stars. Moving through these diverse regions of the past, the film variously captures anthropological, archaeological, geological, and cosmological durations. In contrast to interpretations which propose that this depiction of temporality allows for healing following Chile’s brutal dictatorship, this chapter employs Henri Bergson’s conception of time, Greg Hainge’s ontology of noise, and Jane Bennett’s conception of enchanted materialism to propose that Guzman’s film transmits awe and terror to the audience in an embodied manner. Reflecting on the religious connotations of Guzmán’s film in the light of the work of León Rozitchner and Gustavo Gutiérrez, the chapter proposes that the film is underpinned by the logic of the felix culpa and becomes an act of communion designed to reactivate past political struggles. This is to say that, at once scientific and theological, Nostalgia de la luz establishes the foundation for an immanent posthuman politics.

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