QUEIRUGA A.T., SUSIN L.C., VIGIL J.M. (eds.), BALASURIYA T., TEIXEIRA F., SUESS P., BARROS M., BOFF L., MELLONI J., TROCH L., ROBLES J.A., KNITTER P.F., WILFRED F., & CASALDÁLIGA P. «Concilium» Theological Journal, 309 issue, SCM Press London 2007 first annual issue, 141 pp. ISBN 978-0-334-03092-8,
Concilium is a review in the Catholic tradition, conciliar in tone, with an ecumenical spirit. Th... more Concilium is a review in the Catholic tradition, conciliar in tone, with an ecumenical spirit. The ‘signs ofthe times’ demand daring in examining and elaborating new depths of ‘catholicity’ and of the spirit of ecumenism. The increasingly obvious emergence of pluralism, to the point where it marks a new paradigm, compels a new and more forceful approach to it, seeking new insights and trying out a new language.
ASETT, the Latin American Theological Commission of EATWOT (Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians) proposed a jointly-edited issue of Concilium, in which Latin American theology would draw into its tradition what theology produced in the Anglo-Saxon context had been developing in a somewhat different form: a theology that, rather than being one ‘of religious pluralism’, is a pluralist theology, elaborated on the basis of a pluralist paradigm, and one that is, effectively, a liberating pluralist theology, based on the approach of the option for the poor.
The challenge had, in fact, been clearly issued to liberation theology by Aloysius Pieris, on the grounds that religious pluralism has everything to do with the multitudes of poor people, as is confirmed here in the article by Jose Maria Vigil. Following a series of publications by ASETT, this issue of the review, as a partnership between ASETT and Concilium, displays not only world-wide collaboration, as is necessary today, but also a fruitful marriage between liberation theology and theology of pluralism, showing that liberation theology has not remained stuck in the themes of past decades but is tackling new concerns, such as this pluralist liberation theology.
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ASETT, the Latin American Theological Commission of EATWOT (Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians) proposed a jointly-edited issue of Concilium, in which Latin American theology would draw into its tradition what theology produced in the Anglo-Saxon context had been developing in a somewhat different form: a theology that, rather than being one ‘of religious pluralism’, is a pluralist theology, elaborated on the basis of a pluralist paradigm, and one that is, effectively, a liberating pluralist theology, based on the approach of the option for the poor.
The challenge had, in fact, been clearly issued to liberation theology by Aloysius Pieris, on the grounds that religious pluralism has everything to do with the multitudes of poor people, as is confirmed here in the article by Jose Maria Vigil. Following a series of publications by ASETT, this issue of the review, as a partnership between ASETT and Concilium, displays not only world-wide collaboration, as is necessary today, but also a fruitful marriage between liberation theology and theology of pluralism, showing that liberation theology has not remained stuck in the themes of past decades but is tackling new concerns, such as this pluralist liberation theology.