Globalization, to the extent that it is authoritarian, patriarchal, ethnocentric and destructive of nature, has a culture, an ethic and a spirituality that is more of death than of life. The church that defends the life of the excluded and does not have the spirit of the system of globalization can construct within that system a cultural, ethical and spiritual resistance to the system itself. The word of God, communicated and listened to, is the highest authority in the church, as Vatican II formally taught. A church of power, structured according to an authoritarian, patriarchal and ethnocentric logic, will have a hermeneutics consistent with its structure and logic. In this Spirit the word of God recovers the liberty and authority that are its birthright not according to the logic of globalization but according to that of inculturation.
Every historic transformation is possible when a theoretical space exists that makes it possible.
The rise of a new practice of faith and of a new model of church in the Third World became possible only because of the development of liberation theology. In the world of the poor and of the excluded, theology is more necessary than ever, just as the power of the Spirit and of the word is more necessary. The theology of liberation is a new way of conceiving the Spirit and the word in the contemporary situation of the Third World. If the universal church seeks to adopt the logic of inculturation and not that of globalization, it should also adopt the historic power of those theologies that are being born today in the Third World. He has degrees in theology and scripture, and a doctorate in sociology from the University of Paris.