El libro de Daniel

El presente trabajo tiene dos partes. En la primera parte, dedicada a las Conferencias generales del Episcopado Latinoamericano, se hace un estudio del texto para proponer formulaciones concretas de la mision de la Iglesia en cada una de las Conferencias. En la segunda parte se estudian los cuatro teologos buscando en ellos su postura en relacion con la mision de la Iglesia. Se comienza tratando a Juan Luis Segundo que representa el comienzo de la reflexion teologica latinoamericana. Ignacio Ellacuria ofrece un desarrollo de la Iglesia de los pobres que se empena en la liberacion historica....

The sacred link with nature is so important for the human being that people who lose it usually feel a hole inside them that is growing and suffocating them more and more. However, that relationship is not lost because the spirit of the goddess is still waiting for us.

The Christianization of the Roman Empire (4th-5th centuries) resulted in progressive deterioration of the legal and social status of the Jews. Although they were still recognized as a "licita religio" (their legal existence guaranteed by the laws of the Empire), the Church gained influence on the legislation dealing with Jews. Access of Jews to public posts was prohibited, as well as possessing Christian slaves, testifying in trials or becoming lawyers. The Church isolated the Jews socially, prohibiting Christians from having any contact with them (marrying, sharing a meal, holding...

By analyzing a varied body of writing- hagiographies, histories, treatises, and correspondence- in the context of religious colonial culture and European mercantilism, Mario Cesareo shows how Portuguese and Spanish missionaries created a Christian understanding of the colonial process. The material excess of the colonial world, experienced as a capricious parade of signs, masks, objects, races, languages, and bodies subjected to European exploitation, presented a problem of the first magnitude for Christian missionaries. In order to render intelligible the incongruities of the colonial...