scholarly journals 50 anos de renovação da Igreja na América Latina: aprendizados da história

2019 ◽  
Vol 78 (311) ◽  
pp. 723
Author(s):  
João Décio Passos

A reflexão apresenta os pontos principais do processo de renovação eclesial ocorrido na América Latina, segundo a pauta do aggiornamento conciliar. Expõe os tópicos centrais dessa renovação e o decorrente arrefecimento que vai sofrendo no decorrer do tempo. Afirma a necessidade de que toda reforma atinja a esfera estrutural da instituição para que possa sobreviver historicamente com seus princípios e pautas. Afirma também a validade emblemática do carisma renovador da Igreja dos pobres, demarcado na Conferência de Medellín, para os dias de hoje, tanto nas Igrejas do continente, quanto para as reformas colocadas em marcha pelo Papa Francisco no conjunto da Igreja.Abstract: The reflection presents the main points of the process of ecclesial renewal that took place in Latin America, according to the agenda of the conciliar aggiornamento. It exposes the central topics of this renewal and the resulting cooling that will suffer over time. It affirms the need for any reform to reach the structural sphere of the institution so that it can survive historically with its principles and guidelines. It also affirms the emblematic validity of the renewing charism of the Church of the poor, set out in the Medellin Conference, for the present day, both in the Churches of the continent and in the reforms proposed by Pope Francisco in the Church as a whole.Keywords: Latin America; Francis; Church; The Poor and Ecclesial Reform.

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Jorge Costadoat Carrasco

RESUMEN: El objetivo de esta investigación es suministrar argumentos para identificar la Teología latinoamericana con la Teología de la liberación, y viceversa. Entre estos argumentos se debe considerar la conciencia de alcanzar la “mayoría de edad” de la Iglesia en América Latina en el postconcilio; la convicción de los teólogos de la liberación de estar elaborando una “nueva manera” de hacer teo­logía; una toma de distancia del carácter ilustrado de la teología; y la posibilidad de reconocer en los acontecimientos regionales, particularmente en los pobres, un habla original de Dios. Este artículo pretende hacer una contribución al status quaestionis del método teológico.ABSTRACT: The objective of this paper is to provide arguments to identify Latin American Theology with Liberation Theology, and vice versa. Among these arguments, one should consider the awareness of the Church in Latin America reaching its “age of maturity” in the post-conciliar period. Other arguments are the conviction of liberation theologians to be elaborating a “new way” of doing theology; a distance from the illustrated characteristic of theology; and, the possibility of recognizing in regional events, particularly in the poor, God’s original speech. This article aims to contribute to the status quaestionis of the theological method.


2018 ◽  
Vol 78 (309) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Geraldina Céspedes

La Conferencia de Medellín se constituye uno de los eventos eclesiales más significativos y decisivos para la Iglesia, particularmente en América Latina. Pues, lo que sucedió fue un acontecimiento kairótico, un tiempo de gracia, un acontecimiento del Espíritu. Y es significativo que sus “bodas de oro” ocurran en tiempos del Papa Francisco, que, al igual que Medellín, reinterpreta los signos de los tiempos a la luz del retorno a Jesús y a la opción por los pobres. Recontextualizar hoy esa doble referencia en el continente latinoamericano es escuchar y celebrar Medellín, también con ocasión de sus 50 años.Abstract: The Medellin Conference became one of the most significant and decisive ecclesial events for the Church, particularly in Latin America. For what happened was an opportune happening, a time of grace, an event of the Spirit. And it is significant that its “gold anniversary” happens in Pope Francisco’s days, someone who, like Medellin, reinterprets the signs of the times in the light of Jesus’ return and in the option for the poor. To re-contextualize today this double reference in the Latin American Continent is to listen to Medellin and to celebrate it at the moment of its fiftieth anniversary.Keywords: Conference of Medellín; Latin American Church; Back to Jesus; Option for the por; Pope Francisco.


2018 ◽  
Vol 78 (309) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Víctor Codina

Medellín 1968 fue un tiempo de gracia, una irrupción del Espíritu para América Latina, fue una recepción creativa del Vaticano II por parte de la Iglesia local Latinoamericana que en el clamor de los pobres discernió un signo de los tiempos En Medellín se actualiza el deseo de Juan XXIII de que el rostro de la Iglesia conciliar fuera el dela Iglesia de los pobres, que el Vaticano II, seguramente muy centro-europeo, no logró plasmar.Abstract: Medellin 1968 was a time of grace, an eruption of the Spirit for Latin America.  It was a creative reception of the Vatican II by the local Latin-American Church that perceived in the outcry of the poor a sign of the times. In Medellin, Pope John XXIII’s wish – that the face of the conciliar Church be that of the Church of the poor – was finally concretized. This was a wish that the naturally very Centro-European Vatican II was unable to fulfil.Keywords: Vatican II; Local church; Signs of the times; Poor; Justice.


2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Agenor Brighenti

As Conclusões de Medellín continuam relevantes para os dias atuais, não só porque o mundo dos pobres mudou muito pouco nestes 50 anos, mas, sobretudo, porque suas intuições básicas e mudanças principais, em grande medida, continuam pendentes de uma implementação mais consequente. Entre elas estão: situar-se no reverso da história, a periferia como o centro da Igreja, de uma Igreja para os pobres a uma pobre, em tempo novo uma nova evangelização, a salvação como libertação integral, a injustiça institucionalizada como pecado social e a diakonía histórica como profetismo. Depois de uma década de franco dinamismo e criatividade, a partir da década de 1980 também a Igreja na América Latina entrou num gradativo processo de “involução eclesial”, só interrompido com a Conferência de Aparecida e a eleição do Papa Francisco. Os “ventos que sopram do Sul” estão reacendendo as intuições de Medellín, guardadas zelosamente, mas pendentes de tempo favorável e terreno propício para continuar seu processo, que agora chegou.Palavras-chave: Medellín. Evangelização. Libertação. Pobres. Profetismo.Abstract: The Medellín Conclusions remain relevant to the present day, not only because the world of the poor has changed very little in these 50 years, but because their basic intuitions and main changes remain pending of a more consequent implementation. Among them there are: be situate on the reverse side of history, the periphery as the center of the Church, from a Church for the poor to a poor Church, in a new time a new evangelization, salvation as integral liberation, institutionalized injustice as social sin and historical diakonia as prophetism. After a decade of frank dynamism and creativity, since the 1980s, the Church in Latin America has also entered a gradual process of “ecclesial involution”, interrupted only by the Aparecida Conference and the election of Pope Francisco. The “winds that blow from the South” are rekindling Medellin’s intuitions, guarded zealously, but pending favorable weather and propitious ground to continue its process, which has now arrived.Key words: Medellin, Evangelization, Liberation, Poor, Prophecy


2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Jorge Costadoat Carrasco

RESUMEN: El objetivo de esta investigación es suministrar argumentos para identificar la Teología latinoamericana con la Teología de la liberación, y viceversa. Entre estos argumentos se debe considerar la conciencia de alcanzar la “mayoría de edad” de la Iglesia en América Latina en el postconcilio; la convicción de los teólogos de la liberación de estar elaborando una “nueva manera” de hacer teo­logía; una toma de distancia del carácter ilustrado de la teología; y la posibilidad de reconocer en los acontecimientos regionales, particularmente en los pobres, un habla original de Dios. Este artículo pretende hacer una contribución al status quaestionis del método teológico.ABSTRACT: The objective of this paper is to provide arguments to identify Latin American Theology with Liberation Theology, and vice versa. Among these arguments, one should consider the awareness of the Church in Latin America reaching its “age of maturity” in the post-conciliar period. Other arguments are the conviction of liberation theologians to be elaborating a “new way” of doing theology; a distance from the illustrated characteristic of theology; and, the possibility of recognizing in regional events, particularly in the poor, God’s original speech. This article aims to contribute to the status quaestionis of the theological method.


2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Víctor Codina

RESUMEN: El artículo presenta las Ponencias previas a Medellín que, junto con el discurso inaugural de Pablo VI, marcarán el rumbo de la Segunda Conferencia: partir de la realidad del pueblo pobre y creyente, escuchar su clamor, discernir los signos de los tiempos y asumir una serie de opciones pastorales, de modo que Medellín constituye una recepción creativa del Vaticano II para América Latina y el surgimiento de una Iglesia pobre, misionera y pascual.ABSTRACT: This article presents the papers which, before Medellin, and together with the opening discourse of Paul VI, marked the course of the Second Conference and exposed: the reality of the poor and believing people, the listening to their cry, the discernment of the signs of the times, and pastoral options. Medellin was a creative reception of Vatican II for Latin America and signaled the emergence of a poor, missionary and paschal Church.


Author(s):  
Matthew A. Shadle

This chapter examines the emergence of liberation theology in Latin America. It offers three cases studies illustrating the economic and political turmoil in Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s: Chile, Brazil, and El Salvador. The chapter then turns to the theology of two prominent liberation theologians, Gustavo Gutiérrez and Ignacio Ellacuría. Gutiérrez proposes that God calls us to make a preferential option for the poor, and to work for integral liberation in history. Similarly, Ellacuría explains that God offers his salvation in history, and the church is called to realize the Reign of God in the midst of historical reality, siding with the “crucified people” with whom Jesus identifies.


1973 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 395-414
Author(s):  
Thomas C. Bruneau

A review of the popular and even scholarly literature dealing with the Catholic Church in Latin America during the last decade will leave the reader confused. The books, articles, and media coverage in comparison with each other are ambiguous and at times contradictory. If on the one hand the Church is described as the fastest-changing institution on the continent, there is on the other hand ample proof put forth that the institution is stagnant and in many cases apparently bankrupt. While some students point to the emergence of militant clergy groups such as the Golconda movement in Colombia or Priests of the Third World in Argentina, others as easily argue that these movements are beyond the institution and without significance in the larger society. And for every time the Church is shown siding with the poor and oppressed, two instances are held up in which words are not followed by action.


1992 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-270
Author(s):  
Richard Shaull

As poor people in Latin America rapidly emerge as a new social class, they are creating a new situation that calls for the church to become a “church of the poor.”


1979 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-312
Author(s):  
Alexander Wilde

The Puebla meeting of the Latin American bishops in early 1979 capped a decade of far-reaching and surprising change in the Catholic Church. A new, local-level unit—the “ecclesial base community” or CEB—has given Catholicism a vitality in society it has not known for centuries. At the same time, the Church has achieved an unprecedented integration as an institution nationally and regionally, in Latin America as a whole. It has found itself, through an unexpected historical dynamic, increasingly committed to the cause of the poor in deed as well as word, And it has been thrust into political confrontations with state authority throughout the region with an intensity and scope unmatched since the nineteenth century.


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