O compromisso cristão com a transformação social nos documentos das Assembléias Gerais de Medellín e Puebla

• Ano de defesa: 2010
• Autor(a) principal: Portes, Antonio Carlos Iancoski
• Orientador(a): Souza, Ney de
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Teologia
• Departamento: Teologia
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Igreja Católica Latino-Americana; Comunidades Eclesiais de Base; Teologia da Libertação; Compromisso social; Fé e vida; Medellín; Puebla
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Latin American Catholic Church; Ecclesiae Base Communities; Liberation Theology; Social commitment; Faith and life
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::TEOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/18393

The present essay has a goal an analytical indenture in History, in the Sixties and Seventies, analyzing the Latin American Catholic Church performance in this period, especially, in the texts and contexts of the general Assemblies of the Medellin and Puebla CELAM. In that time, many worldwide sociocultural manifestations of contesting character were taking place, their mainly characteristic was the dissatisfaction with the reality. At the political scope, idealism, the enthusiasm in the fighting spirit of the people and the anxiety to social transformation, mainly the youth, which adhered more and more to the revolutionary movements were evident. All this social effusion comes to Latin America very strongly. Against that conjuncture, the Catholic Church, as a human institution that is not above History and is taken by it because it s involved by the social, political, cultural and economical aspects of that time, assumed the mission to enlighten these realities using evangelical values. Through a bibliographical research and oral sources we realized that, against the current social effusion, the Catholic Church, fitting into the social reality, supported the communal fights, which were seeking the transformation of the injustice and violent realities that were so evident in Latin America in the period. The Catholic Church stopped being just an observer or a distant advisor about the social problems and became the leading part in the indispensable changes to the Latin America people. Major Ecclesiastic sections, overcoming the ideology of the medieval Christianity and alliances with the elites and constituted powers in behalf of a social order maintenance, assume the communal fights to complete liberation of the people in the continent. The Latin American bishops, in Medellin and Puebla, knew how to realize the society s call and helped in the process of transformation. Interpreting the new signs of the time , the bishops encourage the catholic people to take the responsibility to the evangelical values. Because of this, the documents of Medellin and Puebla Assemblies became efficient instruments that base on the performance of the Christian Catholics in the society. From these, the Catholic Church moves form social place and becomes a special organization place of the communal fights for transformation