Iglesia, carisma y poder
Author: Leonardo Boff
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 238
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Author: Leonardo Boff
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 238
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Leonardo Boff
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 262
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Leonardo Boff (Théologien, Brésil)
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 263
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Leonardo Boff
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2012-01-30
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 172523064X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy the furor over this book? Why was Church: Charism and Power the subject of a Vatican inquiry? The reason, ironically enough, has little to do with its alleged use of Marxist thought, but rather with its critical understanding of the church in the light of the gospel. Church: Charism and Power is a provocative, devastating critique of the ways in which power, sacred power, is controlled and exercised in the Roman Catholic Church. It is a militant book, a radical book, but it is by no means defective in orthodoxy. In fact, with all its criticism it offers a brilliant defense of the historical claims of Roman Catholicism. Its central thesis argues that since the fourth century the church has fallen victim to a kind of power that has nothing to do with the gospel and everything to do with the dynamics of power with all of its inevitable abuses. This historical reality, enshrined in the monarchical model of the church, was undermined at the Second Vatican Council and replaced by that of the church as people of God. This 'laical' model is closely allied in Boff's exposition with the notion of the church as sacrament of the Holy Spirit: the church as "sign and instrument of the now living and risen Christ, that is the Holy Spirit." A pneumatic ecclesiology such as this would lead the church back to its primitive dynamics of community, cooperation, and charism. It would create a church in which everyone shared equally and where flexible and appropriate ministries conformed to needs as they arose. Is such a church possible? Is it not simply the utopian dream of idealists and sectarians down through the ages? No, says Father Boff, given the incredible growth throughout Latin America of comunidades eclesiales de base, base communities, where the people express and achieve their desire for participation and where the hierarchy divests itself of its titles and ecclesiastical baggage, creating a common desire for community and equality. This model of the church has acquired an unexpected historical possibility: the new church is in the process of being born. This church, the church being born from the faith of the poor, has rediscovered for itself--and for the church universal--the living presence of the dangerous memory of Jesus Christ.
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Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
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Total Pages: 3265
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Harold D. Hunter
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2019-02-21
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1532667647
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe global pentecostal charismatic movement, as it launches into the twenty-first century, outdistances current attempts at classification and clarification. Although scholarly theologizing has not been the hallmark of the movement, the current surge of pentecostal-charismatic scholars confounds the accepted antithesis between expressive narrative and reflective theology. Brighton ‘91, which featured Professor Jurgen Moltmann and the Archbishop of Canterbury, was a symposium unprecedented in the range of participating scholars drawn form six continents. They gave voice to new insights for handling racism, sexism, socioeconomic oppression and the environment, thus modeling a legitimate postmodern agenda.
Author: Elina Vuola
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2002-09-19
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781841273099
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow far are the real lives of millions of poor women really catered for in liberation and feminist theologies? Vuola argues here that traditional liberation theology's notion of praxis (as in L .Boff and E. Dussel) is limited by its essentialist notion of 'poor' and its neglect of the issue of poor women's reproductive rights. Classical feminist theologies, on the other hand, are fraught with their own essentialist notions ('women's experience'). Both discourses are inadequate to deal with poor women's suffering: widespread maternal mortality, high rates of botched, illegal abortions, and an overall lack of reproductive rights. As a response to this lack, Vuola nurtures a form of Latin American feminist liberation theology that addresses directly the suffering and death of these millions of women.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-12-06
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9004478027
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Domenico Grasso
Publisher: Ediciones Cristiandad
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9788470573521
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