scholarly journals 50 años de historia espiritual con la opción por los pobres

2018 ◽  
Vol 78 (309) ◽  
pp. 123
Author(s):  
José María Vigil
Keyword(s):  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Deep Ecology ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Characteristic Element ◽  
Utopian Vision ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Liberation Spirituality ◽  
Theology Of Liberation

Medellín fue el momento fundante de la espiritualidad y la teología de la liberación, y su elemento más característico: la opción por los pobres. Los 50 años transcurridos han sido de una espiritualidad muy intensa, por el surgimiento de una nueva eclesialidad, la asunción de la conflictividad inherente al seguimiento de Jesús, una mística martirial... El Autor subraya el carácter espiritual de esta historia, recordando momentos memorables, como la visión sociológico-utópica de Gottwald, el final de la “arqueologia bíblica” clásica, la superación del carácter provinciano de la teología cristiana de la liberación, la apertura al horizonte de la ecologia profunda... y el encuentro reciente con los últimos nuevos paradigmas, que muestran que esta aventura espiritual tiene todavía mucho quehacer por delante.Abstract: Medellín was the founding moment of liberation spirituality and theology, and its most characteristic element: the option for the poor. These 50 years have been of a very intense spirituality, because of the emergence of a new ecclesiality, the assumption of the inherent conflictivity of the following of Jesus, the martyrial mystic... The author emphasizes the spiritual character of this journey, recalling memorable moments, like the sociological-utopian vision of Gottwald, the end of classical “biblical archeology”, the overcoming of the parochial character of the ‘Christian’ theology of liberation, the opening to the horizon of deep ecology ... and the recent encounter with the last new paradigms, which show that this spiritual adventure still has much to do ahead.Keywords: Medellín; Spirituality of liberation; Theology of liberation; Option for the poor; Paradigms.

scholarly journals A Teologia da Libertação e a questão de seus fundamentos. Em debate com Clodovis Boff

2019 ◽  
Vol 68 (270) ◽  
pp. 277
Author(s):  
Luiz Carlos Susin ◽  
Érico João Hammes
Keyword(s):  
Linear Logic ◽  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Hermeneutic Circle ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Theology Of Liberation

Este artigo debate com Clodovis Boff as suas afirmações de que a Teologia da Libertação acabou por inverter a relação entre Deus e o pobre, colocando o pobre no lugar de Cristo. Em réplica, aqui sustentamos que o pobre não é apenas uma decorrência cristológica, mas antes um “lugar teológico” privilegiado para compreender Cristo e Deus do ponto de vista da teologia cristã, inclusive seu teste de veracidade. O artigo debate também a metodologia de Clodovis, que segue uma lógica linear, de sabor escolástico, e não considera suficientemente a complexidade do círculo hermenêutico e a tradição bíblica que obriga a incorporar o paradoxo e o escândalo da quenose como categoria bíblica. Por fim, a categoria de quenose não pode se ater a uma memória textual, mas entra em círculo hermenêutico com a quenose atual dos pobres e de todos os que estão em situação de vulnerabilidade, aos quais é dado o Reino de Deus.Abstract: This article engages in a debate with Clodovis Boff with regard to his statements that the Theology of Liberation, by replacing Christ with the poor, ended by inverting the relationship between God and the poor. In refutation of this, we affirm here that the poor are not just a christological consequence but more a privileged “theological place” to understand Christ and God from the point of view of christian theology, and even to test their veracity. The article also disputes Clodovis’ methodology which, in our view, follows a linear logic of a somewhat scholastic flavour, and does not take into sufficient consideration the complexity of the hermeneutic circle and the biblical tradition that forces us to incorporate the paradox and the scandal of the kenosis as a biblical category. Finally the category of kenosis cannot be limited to a textual memory; it enters into a hermeneutic circle with the present kenosis of the poor and of all those who are still in a situation of vulnerability and to whom the Kingdom of God is given.

scholarly journals Toward an Analytic Theology of Liberation

2020 ◽  
pp. 47-74
Author(s):  
Sameer Yadav
Keyword(s):  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Relative Lack ◽  
Moral Encroachment ◽  
Theology Of Liberation

This chapter attempts to diagnose and critique the relative lack of interest in liberation theology as a research programme in analytic theology. After offering analyses of what constitutes ‘analytic theology’ and ‘liberation’ theology respectively and showing that the two are compatible, I argue that the epistemic good theology seeks—that of producing true explanatory theories—is subject to pragmatic and moral encroachment by other sorts of goods, including the good of serving the needs of the oppressed in society. Accordingly, I conclude that Christian theology ought to recognize liberatory interests as a norm of theological inquiry, and that instances of Christian analytic theology that are not also instances of liberation theology ought to be regarded as instances of bad theology.

Prophetic Preaching, Liberation Theology and the Holy Land

2004 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-244
Author(s):  
Duncan Macpherson
Keyword(s):  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Jewish People ◽  
Holy Land ◽  
Prophetic Preaching ◽  
Oppressed People ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Preferential Option ◽  
Theology Of Liberation

For Christian preachers the Holy Land is essential to understanding the Bible. Preachers often leave modern Israel-Palestine out of their preaching picture. Others, fundamentalist preachers, support modern Israel for its part in an apocalyptic drama of the last times. A third group sees the land as the recompense to the Jewish people for their sufferings – reinforced for some by a residually literalist interpretation of Scripture. Still others show solidarity with indigenous Palestinian Christians, developing a theology of liberation emphasising God's preferential option for the poor – the Palestinians and all oppressed people. Homiletic strategies will be sketched to illustrate this last approach.

scholarly journals Black theology versus black spirituality and black faith: The centrality of spirituality and faith in black theology of liberation in the South African context

2021 ◽  
Vol 77 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Olehile A. Buffel
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Liberation Theology ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Black Theology ◽  
Spiritual Journey ◽  
Black Liberation ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Theology Of Liberation

Black theology, which is linked to black power in the context of the United States of America and black consciousness in the context of South Africa is often regarded as having nothing to do with spirituality, faith and salvation. It is often regarded by critics as radical, militant and political. In some circles its theological character is questioned. Advocates of liberation theology, past and present are accused of mixing religion with politics. The article traces the history of black theology, as part of liberation theology, which started in the 1960s in three contexts, namely Latin America, United States of America and South Africa. The article argues that spirituality, faith and salvation are central to black theology of liberation. The critical theological reflection that black theology of liberation is all about happens in the context of the spiritual journey of the poor believer and oppressed.Contribution: The contribution that this article makes is to serve as a corrective discourse that rebuts the mistaken accusation that black liberation theology has nothing to do with spirituality and faith. The article makes a direct link between spirituality and faith on the one hand and on the other hand liberating Christian praxis of the poor in their spiritual journey, in the context of South Africans as they struggle to liberate themselves amid poverty, service delivery struggles and COVID-19 and its implications.

A Tale of Two Priests and Two Struggles: Liberation Theology from Dictatorship to Democracy in the Brazilian Northeast

2007 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 409-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Hoffman French
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
The State ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Military Dictatorship ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Brazilian Northeast ◽  
Theology Of Liberation

Land for the landless, food for the hungry, literacy for the uneducated—not through charitable works, but by forcing the state to take seriously its responsibilities to its poorest citizens. This was integral to the theology of liberation as it was practiced by bishops, priests, and nuns in Brazil beginning shortly after the close of the Second Vatican Council in 1965. Important sectors of the Brazilian Catholic Church were “opting for the poor” at a time when economic development, modernization, and democracy were not considered appropriate or meaningful partners in the repressive environment characterized by the Brazilian military dictatorship (1964-1985).

scholarly journals Prophetic Theology in Black Theology, with special reference to the Kairos document

2010 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vuyani S. Vellem
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Black Theology ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Prophetic Vision ◽  
Political Praxis ◽  
Alternative Community ◽  
Best Responses ◽  
Theology Of Liberation

The ‘Protest’ and ‘Confessing’ Models in the streams of Black Theology of liberation provide a creative link between the Prophetic Theology in the Kairos document (KD) and the Black Theology of liberation. Launched in a distinct moment of history – an ‘opportune moment’ – the KD propagated the best responses among some and the worst among others as a rapturous critique of State and Church theologies. In this article, I argued that the KD, which remains a version of liberation theology par excellence, offers a methodology that is still appropriate to our democratisation processes in South Africa. The KD is the product of a theology that did not only expand the contours of traditional theology, but also understood confession as a political praxis. Thus, the interest of the poor should still mitigate forth-telling in our democratic vision in dialogue inspired by the alluring prophetic vision of an alternative community based on the principles of the reign of God.

Latin American Liberation Theology and Postcolonial Studies

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 313-349
Author(s):  
Roberto Puggioni
Keyword(s):  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Western World ◽  
Theology Of Liberation

Abstract This paper argues in favour of the need of a continuous decolonisation and contextualisation of theology. Global capitalism, modernity, and the persistent colonial attitudes of the Western world are the phenomena in which to frame the presence of striking inequalities among and within countries. By assuming a liberationist standpoint, the analysis points at the convergence in methods and scopes of the Western postcolonial thought and the Latin American Christian theology of liberation for an effective decolonisation of theology. Liberation, with all its implications, becomes the key term through which to understand this relationship.

The Outcry and Revelation of the Truth that Sets us Free

2021 ◽  
pp. 456-471
Author(s):  
Jung Mo Sung
Keyword(s):  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human History ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Object Relationship

From the perspective of liberation theology, God does not reveal himself so that the human being may know something, but rather so that the human being may be more humane. Revelation is an act of liberation, which delivers the truth that is a prisoner of injustice and sin. In this sense, revelation is not a set of right doctrines (a subject-object relationship), but is a pedagogical process in which human beings, in their relationship to other people (a subject–subject relationship), discover that God does not discriminate among people, that in God all persons are equal in their fundamental dignity. This revelation of God in human history begins with the outcry of the poor and the victims of oppressive relationships and goes on in the discernment between God, who hears the outcry of the victims and calls them to liberation, and the idols and idolaters who do not listen to them and do not recognize their humanity.

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