Proclaiming the reign of God in a suffering world: The movement from development to liberation

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim Lamberty
Keyword(s):  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
Good News ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Gustavo Gutierrez ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Populorum Progressio ◽  
Theological Foundation ◽  
The Difference

Today’s missionary, whether long-term or short-term, church-based or part of a faith-based NGO, is faced with grinding poverty and the extreme isolation and marginalization of vulnerable populations. This article will develop a theological foundation that calls missionaries to address the root causes of poverty as a key element of proclaiming the Good News, and will conclude with specific and concrete recommendations for doing so. The article places liberation theology in dialogue with Catholic Social Teaching and with the experiences of faith-based development agencies. Particular attention is given to the work of Gustavo Gutiérrez and Pope Paul VI’s document, Populorum Progressio. The article will illustrate the ways that liberation theology has challenged Catholic Social Teaching in its thinking about how to respond to economic marginalization, insisting that charitable aid is insufficient and highlighting the difference between “development” and “liberation.”

scholarly journals The Vatican and Ecospirituality: Tensions, Promises and Possibilities for Fostering an Emerging Green Catholic Spirituality

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Hrynkow ◽  
Dennis Patrick O'Hara
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Critical Distance ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
La Paz ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
American Perspective ◽  
North American Perspective ◽  
Selection Of

Since John Paul II’s 1990 World Day of Peace Message on the ecological crisis, green themes have been a recurring feature of the Vatican’s public teachings. Working with a selection of Catholic Social Teaching documents, this article explores the Vatican’s reactions to and accommodations of ecospirituality.  A critical lens informed by ecotheological ethics is employed to analyse the Vatican’s specific brand of ecospirituality, particularly as it relates to its condemnation of biocentrism, while also acknowledging official efforts to green the Roman Catholic Church’s doctrine and faith-based practices. With the advantage of the critical distance that a North American perspective provides, this article suggests ways that the Vatican can foster a more integral and substantively peaceful greening of Catholic Social Teaching and Catholic spirituality by drawing on resources from within Catholic intellectual tradition, as well as other expressions of ecospirituality, ecotheology, and Catholic Social Teaching documents from local bishops’ conferences in Europe and the Americas.   A partir del mensaje de  Juan Pablo II en el Día Mundial de la Paz de en 1990 sobre la crisis ecológica, han sido frecuentes los esfuerzos de divulgación  del Vaticano con respecto a temas relacionados al medio ambiente.  Basándose en una selección de documentos de la doctrina Social Católica a estos temas, este artículo explora las reacciones del Vaticano sobre argumentos  relacionados a la ecoespiritualidad. A través de un lente crítico basado en la ética ecoteológica asimismo que explorando una versión particular de ecoespiritualidad particularmente referida a la condenación del biocentrismo, se pondrá de manifiesto los esfuerzos oficiales de reverdecer la política de la Iglesia Apostólica Romana y  las prácticas de la fe que a este tema se refieren. Tomando como punto de partida la prerrogativa de una distancia crítica desde una enfoque Norteamericano, esta ponencia sugiere maneras en las que el Vaticano puede fomentar un reverdecimiento mas integral y pacífico de las doctrina Social Católica y de la Espiritualidad Católica recurriendo a fuentes dentro de la tradición intelectual Católica asimismo que basándose en otras expresiones de ecoespiritualidad, ecoteología y documentos de Educación Social Católica de conferencias de obispos en Europa y la Américas.

Catholic Social Teaching and Human Trafficking in War and Natural Disasters

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 307-331
Author(s):  
Joe Evans ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Theological Foundation ◽  
The Church

This essay examines Catholic social teaching in the context of human trafficking in South Asia during armed conflict and natural disasters. Using a see-judge-act framework to construct the argument, this paper is focused on finding ways to narrow the gaps in these efforts. The gaps occur horizontally when individual issues become isolated from a larger effort, failing to recognize that many challenges are symptoms of a larger problem. The gaps also occur vertically, with the divide between theory and practice. The Church, including religious and lay actors, can diminish the threat and damage from human trafficking through a comprehensive implementation of Catholic social teaching that has a theological foundation and is conscious of the relevant cultural factors.

Indigenous Peoples and the Experience of Christianity

1989 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-332
Author(s):  
Carl Starkloff
Keyword(s):  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Good News ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Gospel Message ◽  
As If

If Europeans have served as the most prominent stewards of the Gospel, it is not surprising that they have found it hard to distinguish between sharing the Good News and pushing their civilisation as if it were part of the gospel message. It has taken four centuries of pain for the churches to begin to be aware of the difference between culture and Christianity, and of the problem of distinguishing between them. Movements such as liberation theology and inculturation are demonstrating that it is not too late to change course. Europeans can, with the help of the peoples they colonised, escape their own cultural captivity.

Bridging a Divide: A Faith-Based Perspective on Anti-Discrimination Law

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-78
Author(s):  
Mark Bell
Keyword(s):  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract High-profile litigation in various jurisdictions has drawn attention to situations where conflict arises between the requirements of anti-discrimination law and the religious beliefs and practices of individuals and organizations. Although these disputes reflect genuine disagreements, this article argues that, in addition to litigation, other facets of the relationship between faith and anti-discrimination law need to be considered. Taking Catholic Social Teaching as a case study, the article explores anti-discrimination law through a theological lens. In this example, it identifies significant common ground where religious beliefs are congruent with anti-discrimination law, even if areas of divergence are also present. The article concludes that further exploration of law and theology could make a contribution to fostering a more constructive relationship between faith and anti-discrimination law.

From the Truly Real to Spiritual Wisdom

2001 ◽  
pp. 17-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stewart W. Herman
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Natural Law ◽  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Business Practice ◽  
Moral Judgments ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Roman Catholicism ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Faith Based

This essay sketches a method for identifying the insights that diverse religious traditions offer to the field of business ethics. Each article in this volume asserts or assumes faith-based claims about what is "truly real" as the ground of moral aspiration and obligation. Four distinct kinds of claims yield four kinds of wisdom, that is, moral guidance for business practice. 1) In Judaism and Islam, scriptural commands, as interpreted authoritatively down through these traditions, yield precise methods for rendering specific moral judgments; in Roman Catholicism, similar guidance is provided through natural law. 2) In Buddhism, Judaism, and most of the surveyed Christian traditions, the values of compassion, love, and justice provide spiritual resources to counter pressures towards immoral behavior in business. 3) The African-American and Mennonite churches interpret their particular histories of oppression to offer distinctive models of fortitude and hope. 4) In Evangelical Calvinism, Mormonism, and Roman Catholic social teaching, convictions about God's redemptive and sanctifying activity offer a robust moral vision for successful striving.

Church as Sacrament: Gutiérrez and Sobrino as Interpreters ofLumen Gentium

Horizons ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-95
Author(s):  
Todd Walatka
Keyword(s):  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Basic Point ◽  
Gustavo Gutierrez ◽  
The World ◽  
Effective Instrument ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Jon Sobrino ◽  
The Church

Vatican II'sGaudium et Spes(GS) has had an unmistakable and demonstrable impact on Latin American liberation theology. Likewise, any sufficient account of the impact of GS on the wider church would need to attend to liberation theology. This article affirms this basic point, then explores the often-underappreciated relationship between liberation theology andLumen Gentium(LG).In particular, it investigates how Gustavo Gutiérrez and Jon Sobrino interpret a fundamental ecclesiological affirmation of LG: the church as a sacrament of salvation and unity. Gutiérrez's early work provides, and Sobrino deepens, the basic point that the church's work as a sacrament inherently demands an option for the poor. Rather than being simply part of its social teaching, this option is at the heart of the churchquachurch. It is essential both for an adequate interpretation of LG and for a church seeking to be a credible sign and effective instrument of salvation and unity in the world.

scholarly journals Liberation Theology According to Abdurrahman Wahid and Gustavo Gutierrez

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Sangkot Sirait
Keyword(s):  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Process Of Change ◽  
The Real ◽  
Gustavo Gutierrez ◽  
Cultural Approach ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Way ◽  
Theology Of Liberation

<p>This paper tells the thoughts of two religious figures who are concerned with talking about religion and humanity. These two figures are Abdurrahman Wahid and Gustavo Gutiérrez. The question that will be answered here is how the concept of the liberation of the two figures and where the difference lies and their implications for real life. The issues discussed here are related to theology, more popularly called liberation theology. The method used in this research is to read and examine the work of each of the two figures, both works that are called primary or secondary. After that, the concepts are compared according to their respective contexts. From the results of research on their works, an understanding is obtained that the theology of liberation is inspired by the real conditions of society that are of concern, both in terms of poverty and opportunity. Therefore, according to the two figures, religion must be able to solve the problem, it means that religion practised not only as a doctrine but also humanity. Action work of people who profess religion is needed to solve community problems. There are differences in the approaches of the two figures, namely Gutiérrez is more focused directly involved, while Wahid besides being directly involved, but also with a cultural approach and changing the way people think. The difference between the two approaches has implications for the process of change, namely Gutiérrez is more revolutionary mechanistic, while Wahid is more cultural and evolutionary</p>

A Problem of Long - Term Digital Preservation: Difference in Humanities and Natural Sciences

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 183-195
Author(s):  
Elena Macevičiūtė
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Digital Preservation ◽  
Dynamic Activity ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
Time Line ◽  
Digital Documents ◽  
Whole Process ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Technological Science

The article deals with the requirements and needs for long-term digital preservation in different areas of scholarly work. The concept of long-term digital preservation is introduced by comparing it to digitization and archiving concepts and defined with the emphasis on dynamic activity within a certain time line. The structure of digital preservation is presented with regard to the elements of the activity as understood in Activity Theory. The life-cycle of digitization processes forms the basis of the main processing of preserved data in preservation archival system.The author draws on the differences between humanities and social sciences on one hand and natural and technological science on the other. The empirical data characterizing the needs for digital preservation within different areas of scholarship are presented and show the difference in approaches to long-term digital preservation, as well as differences in selecting the items and implementing the projects of digital preservation. Institutions and organizations can also develop different understanding of preservation requirements for digital documents and other objects.The final part of the paper is devoted to some general problems pertaining to the longterm digital preservation with the emphasis of the responsibility for the whole process of safe-guarding the cultural and scholarly heritage for the re-use of the posterior generations. It is suggested that the longevity of the libraries in comparison with much shorter life-span of private companies strengthens the claim of memory institutions to playing the central role in the long-term digital preservation.

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