Some fruits from Medellin conference:
50 years after its implementation.
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https://doi.org/10.22199/S07198175.2018.0001.00006Keywords:
Medellin, Pastoral Practice, Liberation Theology, Grass-roots Ecclesiastical Communities, Option for the Poor, Liberating EducationAbstract
The General Latin American Episcopal Conference at Medellin (1968) involved the emergence of a new pastoral practice based on a renewed way to understand Latin American ecclesiastical self-understanding, which became a “foundational” landmark. Its main fruits were the consequence of assuming the task to conciliate a renewing impulse to consecrate the approach to reality (see), read from God’s Word (Judge) and that will lead to a particular way of doing pastoral work (acting). This is not only restricted to a novelty in pastoral praxis, but is also a new way of doing theology, from the place of the poor, with novel expressions in ecclesiology and evangelization, that reach their most visible face in grass-roots ecclesiastical communities. Similarly, a testimonial view appears to understand education in the liberating dimension of people who suffer poverty and demand authentic human promotion. Thus, the Church becomes sympathetic with the just causes of the poor, even with martyrial testimonies.
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