Mi caminar con Ignacio Ellacuría

En este trabajo, Jon Sobrino comparte acerca de su vida, sus experiencias con Ignacio Ellacuría y lo impactante de su fe como legado para la presente y las futuras generaciones. La fe de Ellacuría, a juicio de Sobrino, se vio iluminada por la aparición de monseñor Romero en la turbulenta época de dictadura militar y guerra civil, por lo que es posible hablar de un proceso de conversión que partió de los estudios de teología en Innsbruck y culminó con el asesinato del P. Rutilio Grande y el encuentro, ministerio y asesinato de monseñor Romero. La fe, desde estas reflexiones, no es una realidad acabada ni una experiencia que se pueda dar por sentada, sino un esfuerzo que configura el talante y la radicalidad de la persona, para los casos que presenta este escrito, de la humanidad de Ignacio Ellacuría, monseñor Romero y del propio Jon Sobrino, y el misterio del avizoramiento del Dios liberador en medio de la oscuridad de nuestros días. Finalmente, Sobrino presenta una posible perspectiva ellacuriana para el contexto actual de la pandemia y cómo, desde el encuentro y el escrutinio de la realidad, todavía es posible abrir las puertas a la historia de la salvación desde los oprimidos. ECA Estudios Centroamericanos, Vol. 76, No. 764, 2021: 75-88.

Vulner-ability: A Systematic Theological Approach to an Ambivalent Term

The term vulnerability is en vogue, both in theology and in mission studies. This contribution systematically analyses the concept and phenomenon of vulnerability and discusses its different aspects; namely materiality and embodiment, pain and suffering, and resilience and resistance. From a Christian theological point of view, these aspects of vulnerability resonate with key theological questions that lead to a closer look at the Christologies of Jürgen Moltmann, Jon Sobrino, and Graham Ward. The guiding questions are: How can we speak about the vulnerable human being in his or her relationship to Jesus Christ, the Son of God made flesh? And how is it possible vice versa to speak about the incarnated God in light of the vulnerability of all human beings? Finally, the argument culminates in a plea for a vulnerable theology in a wounded world.

Toward Witnessing the Other: Syria, Islam and Frans van der Lugt

This article addresses issues and questions at the intersection of religion and theatrical drama from the perspective of Muslim-Christian comparative theology. A case study approaching an actual performance of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet from this disciplinary point of view also takes into account the Syrian context, develops a framework for “mutual witnessing”, and the practice of drama therapy. Accordingly, the case-method proceeds to address two interrelated challenges. The first is how to relate to the adaptive praxis and theological sensibilities of performers who inhabit a political and religious situation that is radically different from one’s own. The second regards in a more specific way of reframing a case of Christian martyrdom in terms of witnessing that remains open and hospitable to religious others, and particularly in this case to Syrian Muslims. As an exercise of comparative theology, this case-method approach focuses on notions of “witnessing truth” that appear and are cultivated in the work of liberation theologian Jon Sobrino and in Ibn ‘Arabī’s Fusūs al-Hikam, specifically the chapter on Shuayb. In conclusion, this exercise turns to the performance itself as a potential foundation for shared theological reflection between Muslims and Christians. As such, this article attempts to render how theatrical action creates a “religious” experience according to the structure and threefold sense that Peter Brook observes.

O princípio misericórdia. Uma contribuição à questão dos princípios em bioética

Estuda-se aqui a contribuição do princípio misericórdia, formulado por Jon Sobrino em teologia e por nós colocado no contexto da questão dos princípios em Bioética. Em grande parte tributária ao principialismo norte-americano, a bioética carrega marcas do liberalismo reforçado pelo princípio kantiano da autonomia. O princípio misericórdia oferece um contraponto contundente que vem da vulnerabilidade dos pobres e da sua condição social nomeada por Sobrino como um “povo de crucificados”. Superando a formulação de uma misericórdia ingênua, soma-se a sua força espiritual com as exigências de uma responsabilidade capaz de torná-la transformadora. Desta forma, o princípio misericórdia vem reforçar tendências da bioética no Brasil que buscam superar o principialismo circunscrito aos âmbitos das relações de saúde, para se tornar uma bioética social de grande abrangência.Abstract: This study is about the principle of mercy formulated by Jon Sobrino in theology and put in the context of the principles in Bioethics. Mostly attributed to the North American principialism, bioethics hold marks from the liberalism reinforced by the Kantian principle of autonomy. The principle of mercy offers a crucial counterpoint which comes from the vulnerability of the poor and their social condition named by Sobrino as a “people of crucified ones”. Suppressing the formulation of a naïve mercy, its spiritual strength joins the demands of responsibility in order to be capable to change and to transform realities. So, the principle of mercy can reinforce the bioethical tendencies in Brazil in overlapping its circumscription to the principialism in the field of health relations, in order to reach a social bioethics with a broader inclusion of the poor.