Fe y modernidad en América Latina: La teología de Juan Luis Segundo

Abstract

As a contribution to the Fifth General Conference of Latin-American and Caribbean Bishops, this article proposes to recover the theological legacy of Juan Luis Segundo (1925-1996). This Uruguayan theologian helped, as few were able to do, to shrink the gap, or "rupture", between Gospel and culture that so preoccupied Paul VI, a rupture that nowadays seems to have deepened once again. Within the framework of the previous General Conferences, Segundo not only urged the liberation of theology and pastoral practice from aged and counterproductive paradigms, but also helped to express the Gospel within new cultural frameworks - in particular, in paradigms closer to the modern culture that shaped wide sectors (mostly urban) of the region. To recover Segundo's theological legacy is also a way to recover theology as an indispensable mediation for accomplishing the urgent task of articulating Gospel and cultures.