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Implicações pastorais da liberdade humana em Juan Luis Segundo
Author(s) -
Vicente de Paula Ferreira
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
horizonte
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2175-5841
pISSN - 1679-9615
DOI - 10.5752/p.2175-5841.2016v14n43p1064
Subject(s) - humanities , philosophy , id, ego and super ego , psychology , psychoanalysis

The paper aims to reflect the issue of human freedom based on the underlying principles of the Christian faith in a time of anthropological vulnerability, especially in Latin American. It holds that Christianity must insist on its proposal to promote universal goodwill, despite a human horizon marked by selfishness and lust for power and money. This approach presupposes a radical position of a listener of the divine mystery, revealed in Jesus Christ, as a way to fulfill the human condition. Theoretical framework: Liberation Theology, in the view of Juan Luis Segundo, and its well-established tradition of transforming realities of injustice through faith, comprises the core argument of this text. Findings: Christian salvation necessarily implies the kenosis (κένωσις) of Jesus, i.e., Christ “emptied Himself” (Ph. 2:7), and through His humble dispossession, He broke with all closed systems of the world, and inaugurated a new venture of a liberated freedom: the agape of love. Conclusion: Christian praxis as daily care for the poorest and prophecy of forgiveness rescues the memory of the victims of all forms of human selfishness. 

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