Query: latino theology

title: 2. The 13th Annual Lecture in Hispanic/Latino Theology and Mission

title: The Latino Christ in Art, Literature, and Liberation Theology. Querencias Series. By Michael R. Candelaria

title: The Latino Christ in Art, Literature, and Liberation Theology

title: The Latino Christ in Art, Literature, and Liberation Theology by Michael R. Candelaria (review)

title: Hispanic/Latino Theology

title: Hispanic/Latino Theology

title: HISPANIC/LATINO THEOLOGY Topic: Possible Contributions of Afro Cuban Religion to a Catholic Theology of Grace: An Interreligious Dialogue Convener:

title: The Relational Character of Wesley's Theology and its Implications for an Ecclesiology for the Other: A Latino Pentecostal Testimony
abstract: This article assesses the impact of John Welsey's theology on relationship, both between human beings and God and between human beings within community. This theology of relationality is then used as a framework for reading the Christological hymn in Philippians. Finally the implications of our understanding of a theology of relationality are explored in the light of missiological and ecclesiological lenses. All of this is done through the added lens of the author's experience as a Latino Pentecostal.

title: The Latino Christ in Art, Literature, and Liberation Theology

title: Book Review: The Latino Christ in Art, Literature, and Liberation Theology. By Michael Candelaria
abstract: de sacralized and de divinized as the opposite of the holy. Israel's security rests in God who will not abandon her even in death. Third, what Jesus brought into the world was not only the arrival of the kingdom of God but the fulfillment of God's creativity in the resurrection of the dead as a collective act. Here I have a question about the use of Paul. L. cites a number of Pauline texts but he never cites 1 Corinthians 15:35 57, especially v. 44b. Paul asks how the dead are raised and with what kind of body will they come. He first uses analogies to God's creativity (v. 38) and then turns to the contrast language of apocalyptic culminating in soma psychikon (an embodied human being under the powers of sin, law, and death in Paul's understanding of the human condition) and soma pneumatikon (an embodied human being transformed by the Spirit of holiness as resurrected; cf.  Paul is not describing a risen body but giving a theological understanding of it. Continuity exists in the whole person as embodied spirit, but later L. locates it in the "endurance of the soul" (244; cf. 254 on Paul's use of soma at Phil 3:20 21) However, L.'s main thesis is the relativity of time. He summarizes: "the deceased is no longer subject to earthly time but in death has 'already arrived' at the resurrection of all the dead" (246) Everything happens together in death. So, there is no reason to separate the soul and the body. As humans we are always embodied spirits, however much the body has been transformed. Fourth, then, he treats what happens to us in relation to God, ourselves as whole persons in relationships, the whole history of the world and the universe. This is all admirable so I will end with one final question: could all this be too anthropocentric? "The world is created for resurrection because it is created for human beings and human beings for Christ" (215) We believe that the risen Christ embodies the divine intention for the universe and that we participate in his resurrection but we are not the center of the universe. Evolution betokens a tremendous space time development that will go on even if we are not here. The creativity of God affirms the inherent creativity of the universe. As intelligent beings with reflective awareness, perhaps we are here to contemplate with God the beauty and wonder of God's universe. L. affirms at the end that in adoration we entrust ourselves entirely to God who is "all in all"  the consummation of human life that begins in the here and now through faith (John 5:24 25) I highly recommend this book as a profound invitation to reflect on the ultimate issues of death and life.