Validity of Latin American Liberation Theology: five decades after it’s beginning ; Vigencia de la teología latinoamericana de la liberación: a cinco décadas de su origen

This article reveals what endures as a novelty of the Latin American Liberation Theology five decades after its beginning. The text places this theology in continuium with the expression of the Latin American reception of Vatican II. Liberation theologians agree that in Medellín (1968) a creative appropriation of the Council began, specifically, in an option for the poor. The fact is that, if at the beginning this theology emphasized on the need to make structural social and economic changes in unjust societies, over time it has discovered the importance of the poor as subjects of its reflection and liberation. It has been very significant, in this sense, to discover the enormous value of the popular reading of the Bible carried out in the Base Ecclesial Communities. Therefore, this article reviews the Theology of Liberation method. Over the years it has become necessary to update Gustavo Gutierrez’s approach in order to specify the essence and incorporate the contribution, for example, of Feminist Theology and Indian Theology. These, quite different in terms of their subjects and themes, however, share being inductive theologies of groups that discover their oppression. In a final section, the article describes what would be a major novelty, the concept of revelation. Several theologians not only embrace the hermeneutical circle of contextual theologies, but postulate that God continues to reveal himself in the historical present with a new Word, which is heard in the outcry of the poor for their liberation. that God continues to reveal himself in the historical present with a new Word, which is heard in the outcry of the poor for their liberation. ; 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 ...