Cristo liberador, mediador absoluto del reino de Dios

Abstract

The Latin American Christology of liberation attends with special concern to the acting of God in both yesterday's and today's history. If anything acquires an "absolute" value, in the sense of decisive, final or universal, it is precisely the eschatological event as a concrete and intrahistorical liberation from all that oppresses the poor. This theology takes conflict in history seriously and, por this reason, denounces the discourses made with the claim of absoluteness which turn their backs on the oppression of the poor, and cover it over ideologically. In this article, the author analyzes the points of departure for the theology question in Latin America, and gives an account of the thought of various Latin American theologians who take on the theme of the "absolute". Finally, the author attempts to formulate a synthesis in which the importance of Jesus Christ is underlined, as an absolute mediator of the Reign of God, and of the verification of the Reign through a liberating praxis.