• Christian existence as overcoming worldly concern. A hermeneutic-phenomenological approach to The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air, by Søren Kierkegaard

  GONZÁLEZ SUÁREZ, LUCERO (Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, 2023-08-09)

  This article constitutes a hermeneutic-phenomenological approach to Kierkegaard's The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air. The purpose of these pages is to reveal the essential features of Christian existence as a mode of factual life. In the first section, the condition of possibility and the characteristics and ethical implications of the latter are exhibited. The second reflects on the alternative of following Christ or opting for the search for recognition. The third section shows that the imitation of Christ is the only way to become oneself. The thesis that we want to demonstrate is that Christianity is the form of existence that allows us to overcome worldly concern.
• The theological interview: contexts, procedures and contributions to the theological-practical task

  Bacher Martínez, Carolina (Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, 2023-08-09)

  Within the framework of a synodal Church, which deepens the instances of listening and theological-practical investigations that assume intradisciplinary dialogue in its method, we present the use of the interview technique in theological work with a practical approach. Firstly, the interview technique is briefly described from the social sciences, indicating possible modalities and underlining its collaborative condition. In a second moment, the text explains the various research contexts in which its use can be framed: the research stage, the interrelation with other techniques and the research approach assumed. In a third instance, the proposal indicates the procedures for its preparation, realization and theological interpretation, delving into this last aspect. Fourthly, some examples are offered as well as the proposal to consider the practice of the theological interview as an instance of conversion of theologians. Reflection is offered from research and theological-practical teaching on these topics, in order to contribute to those who are new to empirical theological studies.
• Familia y ecología humana

  Múnera Vélez, Darío (Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, 1993-12-30)

  Hablar de familia y ecología humana es también hablar de ética y familia. Esta relación de conceptos pone una serie de interrogantes que muestran la complejidad del asunto. ¿Cómo viven las familias hoy? ¿Cómo les afectan las circunstancias económicas, sociales, ecológicas, culturales, políticas y morales del mundo en que viven? ¿En qué valores creen y en cuáles han dejado de creer? ¿Cuáles son sus problemas, aspiraciones y derechos? Todas son preguntas válidas y requieren respuestas adecuadas, pues no nos pueden resultarindiferentes las variantes socioculturales que configuran los rasgos de la familia actual.
• Humanae vitae reflexiones antropológicas

  Córdoba Palacio, Ramón (Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, 1993-12-30)

  Las apasionadas polémicas que desató la promulgación de la Carta Encíclica "Humanae Vitae", de Paulo VI, el 25 de julio de 1968, centradas sobre lo oportuno o no oportuno de los diferentes métodos de regulación de la natalidad -y cuyos ecos no se han extinguido aún-, contribuyeron significativamente a que se prestara muy poca atención y fuera poco estudiado y difundido el aspecto. profundamente humano que se presenta en ella sobre el amor conyugal, la dignidad de la función paternal, el respeto por la persona humana y, especialmente, por fa mujer.
• Un poco de historia de la doctrina social de la iglesia en América Latina: Academia de historia eclesiástica: lanzamiento de nuevas Obras

  Múnera Vélez, Darío (Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, 1993-12-30)

  En el contexto de los 500 años de evangelización y en esta ceremonia académica en la que se presentan tres importantes obras académicas, quisiera rescatar el valor de la historia de la Doctrina Social en América Latina: Medellín-Puebla Santo Domingo. El año 1991 fue el año de la Doctrina Social de la Iglesia, fue el año del Centenario de la "Rerum Novarum" y, por tanto, el año de la última encíclica social de Juan Pablo II: "Centessimus annus".
• Wedding metaphor in Scripture

  Angulo Ordorika, Ianire (Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, 2023-08-09)

  Understanding the relationship between God and his people or between Christ and the Church in a conjugal way is a commonplace in the Judeo-Christian tradition. The frequency of this matrimonial imaginary does not silence the question about its origin or the fact that it is used so frequently to refer to a religious experience. This article addresses the complexity of the nuptial image and gets to the roots of its display in the Bible. To do this, after getting closer to understanding metaphors as a cognitive tool, we will explain the reasons that facilitated resorting to the marriage experience to understand the Alliance, as an essential element of the religious experience of Israel. We will also offer a quick overview of its deployment in Scripture by tracing the presence of the nuptial imagery beyond the passages in which it is evident.
• Emotions and the resignification of reality in Laura Montoya Upegui

  Gil Tobón, Jenny Alexandra; Garcés Giraldo, Luis Fernando; Giraldo Zuluaga, Conrado (Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, 2023-08-09)

  Given the growing interest in the life and work of Saint Laura Montoya Upegui, this article aims to locate, from the autobiography Historia de las misericordias de Dios en un alma, some strategies or resources used by the saint for the resignification of reality in the face of undeserved misfortune and uncontrolled circumstances. In the research process, the hermeneutic method of Hans-Georg Gadamer (1993) is applied, consideringintertextuality as a dialogic relationship, to establish a dialogue with the thought of the philosopher Martha Nussbaum. In society, within the global and the particular, the problems are there to remember their leading role in the human condition. These make visible the need to acquire awareness in the face of perpetual uncertainty. Therefore, one’s belief system, imagination and emotional self-knowledge become an important key to resignify reality, guide decisions and find meaning in a society indifferent to social problems and in which reigns a set of thoughts that are assumed as true and that can reflect the degree of freedom in decision-making or, on the contrary, lead to excessive normative theories that threaten human dignity. The above aspects are clear proof that in Laura Montoya's autobiography there is a thread of retrospective that allows her to recognize emotions, confirm who she is, live her greatest passion and find meaning in facing difficulties. Finally, these results represent only one step in the research process facing the work of a prolific writer.
• Perfil teológico del Papa Juan Pablo II sobre la familia

  Agudelo Ceballos, Beatriz (Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, 1993-12-30)

  La pregunta sobre la familia encierra en su interrogante un discurso de fondo que pide búsqueda, análisis profundo, reflexión sobre el sentido desde un ámbito de comprensión antropológico iluminado por la fe, y unos retos que llaman a la transformación. Los jóvenes se preguntan hoy por la familia muchas veces desde el cuestionario de la institución misma.
• La libertad: fundamento prerreflexivo del sentido metafísico

  Schmidt Andrade, Ciro E. (Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, 1993-12-30)

  Siendo la metafísica la ciencia de los principios a priori dé todo conocimiento y de todo conocimiento que se derive-de esos principios, es un intento por alcanzar condiciones generales originarias de las que no se puede desprender. En ese sentido decimos que es trascendental, en cuanto se refiere a modos de conocimiento más que a objetos en sí ( 1 ). Por ello envuelve un riesgo y una audacia; pues supone traspasar los límites de lo "seguro" para el hombre, que es lo verificable, supone genio de aventura, inquietud, sentido de lo humano y sentido de lo absoluto.
• “Cristianismo anónimo”

  Restrepo Posada, Jorge (Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, 1993-12-30)

  En la Era Patrística surgió la Doctrina del "logos Spermatikos", que puede resumirse en los puntos siguientes: Existencia de una revelación original, hecha al hombre por el Logos, en el momento de crearlo (Gn. 2,7) grabándole en el corazón la ley natural, como norma necesaria para el discernimiento moral; es decir, le reveló un conjunto de verdades religiosas y morales suficientes, para su orientación (y el de la humanidad) en relación al destino eterno, que le señalaba, como a "imagen y semejanza de Dios" (Gn. 1,27).
• Historia de la teología moral cristiana

  Zuleta, Guillermo (Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, 1993-12-30)

  A primera vista, el ámbito de la investigación moral parece sumamente amplio. Su extensión coincide con el campo de la existencia humana en el mundo. La experiencia moral afecta al hombre en todas sus dimensiones personales, sociales y existenciales; se trata de una experiencia que pasa al interior de todas las estructuras de la convivencia humana y toca indistintamente todas las formas y modalidades a través de las cuales se expresa la persona.
• Methods of Biblical Exegesis

  Gaitán Briceño, Tarcisio (Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, 2022-06-17)

  Biblical texts are the product of a sometimes long and complex writing process. They were written in social and cultural circumstances that left marks in the content. The authors followed literary guidelines according to the purpose of the different writings and represent the intent to respond to situations in the target communities that challenged their religious faith. Knowing this complexity of elements that are "behind the text" is a requirement for the Bible scholar if he wants to access the richness of its content and the meaning it had for the first readers. Therefore, biblical study requires methodological processes appropriate to the characteristics of the texts that allow discovering their depth and relevance for the Church today. The scientific tradition has been developing different methods of proven effectiveness that today seem to be essential for the academic study of the meaning of biblical texts. This article exposes them grouped into three categories: diachronic, synchronic and contextual. Previously, the necessary steps to begin work with the texts of Scripture are explained. 
• El “clima eclesial” de la recepción latinoamericana del Vaticano II como trasfondo del pensamiento del papa Francisco

  Polanco, Rodrigo (Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, 2023-04-21)

  The article reviews Latin American theological-pastoral literature from the years comprised between 1965 and 1968 in order to perceive the particular way in which Vatican II was received in Latin America. This reveals a certain 'ecclesial climate' which understands that the conciliar process has not ended. This invites a change of mentality that must be articulated in new structures that allow the participation of everyone in the responsibility and mission of the Church. Understanding this 'ecclesial and pastoral ecosystem' from which Francis drew in his early years allows us to understand the orientations that the synodal process is providing.
• Scar, Scripture, and Resurrection. Feeling-Thinking-Living the Christian Experience in the Present Time

  Espinosa Arce, Juan Pablo (Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, 2023-04-21)

  The article proposes a reflection on the theology of resurrection from the perspective of the scar. Through an epistemic approach from sociology, psychoanalysis, and theology, we will try to consider some points to approach the challenges of the Christian experience in the present time. First, the paper offers an introduction to the problem and then a theoretical approach from sociology and psychoanalysis. Third, it proposes some intuitions about the theology of resurrection and discusses how it assumes the points studied in the first sections. Finally, the article concludes with some reflections on how the Christian life can be better understood from the perspectives offered in this article.
• The strategy of coexistence in the First Letter of Peter. An example of the application of the sociological method 'spatial critique'

  Schultz Montalbetti, María José (Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, 2023-04-19)

  The objective of this work is to offer a new reading key of the strategy of the First Letter of Peter. The result is the product of a sociological exegesis based on the methodology that spatial critique proposes to apply to the object of study; as an example, 1 Peter 2:11-17 is analyzed. The contribution of these methodological tools is the appreciation of the emphasis, points of encounter and differences between the prevailing ideology in Mediterranean society in the 1st century and the discourse of the letter. The study of the spatial categories first, second and third space applied as heuristic questions to a representative fragment of the letter offers results that allow proposing a new appreciation of the author's strategy, the transformation of spaces of coexistence through the good conduct of the believers
• Francis and Synodality

  de Aquino Júnior, Francisco (Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, 2023-04-20)

  The pastoral ministry of Pope Francis is marked by the resumption and deepening of the conciliar renewalprocess of the Church and its creative reception in Latin America. One can speak of a 'new phase' in the conciliar reception process, characterized by a double conversion: missionary conversion ('Church on the way to the peripheries') and synodal conversion ('walking together of the People of God') or, to be more precise, by a missionary-synodal conversion, in which the mission is assumed by all Christians ('walking together' of the People of God) and synodality is lived in missionary perspective and dynamism ('walking together' in mission). This article aims to clarify Francis' understanding of synodality or the synodal Church, taking his documents, speeches, decrees, and gestures as a reference. It begins by situating the topic in the context of the resumption and deepening of the conciliar renewal process of the Church, explaining its theological-ecclesiological foundations. It addresses two challenges for the realization of a synodal process in the Church: synodal dynamism (ecclesial structure and imaginary) and missionary dynamism (ecclesial decentering, going out to the peripheries). Finally, it highlights the importance and risks of the ongoing synodal process that will culminate with the two sessions of the Synod of Bishops Assembly in 2023 and 2024. The methodology used is primarily the bibliographic analysis. The writings of Francis are reviewed, some of his main theological, pastoral, and juridical-institutional contributions and challenges for the process of synodal renewal of the Church are addressed. 
• Rethink the religious phenomenon. Approach to the encounter between mysticism and the possibility of being

  Valencia Castañeda, Diego Fernando (Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, 2022-12-16)

  The meaning of life is found beyond eschatological concepts that, on occasions, separate human beings from their constitution as a project. This meaning can be founded, from a Heideggerian perspective, in the “fact” of being-in-the-world. This conception gives rise to the need to better understand the phenomenon of religious life as a manifestation of the search for meaning that continues to question the human being who returns to the religious phenomenon that seeks an answer to his search for the meaning of life and the fact that such a searchrefers to the very mystery of existing. The human being of the religious phenomenon is not exempt from the tentatio, considered by primitive Christianity as a dispersion. Such tentatio, however, could be an element of great value in life, to the extent that it manages to lead the human being to a meaning: reflection before the very mystery of living. In this context, questions arise such as: To what extent can philosophy contribute to rethink the religious phenomenon? How has the phenomenon of religious life been read and how should it be read? Why look again at this phenomenon in today’s world? This article will take as its main reference Heidegger’sPhenomenology of Religious Life, a work from which some concepts of primitive Christianity could be better understood for a reflection and understanding such that the reader can analyze the meaning of religious life beyond institutions in a fundamentally mystical perspective.
• Reform and Synodality. Towards an ecumenism deepened at all levels in the theology of Hans Küng

  Mauti, Ricardo Miguel (Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, 2022-12-16)

  Theology and the current magisterium have placed the themes of reform and synodality at the center of their attention. However, both are intertwined in the ecclesial renewal movement that prepared, celebrated and carried forward the unfinished reception of the Second Vatican Council. It can be said that the topic is highly topical, although it has already been in theological reflection for more than 60 years. This article focuses on the relationship established between both themes in the ecumenical theology of Hans Küng (1928-2021). The Swiss theologian has thought of the concepts of reform and ecumenism in synergy, has put them in relation, pointed out their contrasts. and provided a critical view showing the deep ties that unite them. The perspective of this study integrates the biographical-theological element as a hermeneutical criterion, which allows discovering the dynamic aspect of its proposal. As in every great theologian, also and particularly in Küng, the "biographical" acquires a central place to integrate the multiple nuances offered by his unique vision, both of ecumenical dialogue and interreligious dialogue. For this reason, the method adopted in this contribution is that of a biographical theology, which attempts a diachronic-synchronic proposal of its multiple interconnections, pointing out contributions and limits. In the article we present in four points, the challenge of a synodal church from a deepened ecumenism at all levels, which includes a reform in fidelity to the Christological foundation, ecumenical openness with the Christian churches, dialogue with religions and the challenge of accepting a world ethic. Some open conclusions account for both the suggestiveness of the author's proposal and the criticism that has accompanied it.
• Benedict XV’s Courage and Prophetism: A Necessary Historical Rescue

  de Souza, Ney; da Silva Dias, Tiago Cosmo (Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, 2022-12-16)

  The article intends to expose the boldness and, at the same time, the evangelical courage of Pope Benedict XV, who ruled the Church from 1914 to 1922, during the First World War, for which the pontiff launched several criticisms and exhortations for peace to the belligerents. , albeit unsuccessfully. Through bibliographic investigation in authors of ecclesiastical history, a brief account of the historical context in which Benedict XV was elected is made, with emphasis on the First World War, to highlight his performance in the face of the conflict. At the same time, his firmness in the writing of the Apostolic Letter Maximum Illud, in the context of missionary activities, is highlighted, which also ended up displeasing some wing of the Church for its firm posture when saying, for example, that no congregation owns a certain territory. , but he must settle there until a local clergy is formed. Analyzing the behavior of Benedict XV in the face of both situations, it appears that he was a pope who always knew how to tell the truth and did not worry about popularity, which is why he ended up becoming a forgotten or little explored character. In this sense, this text also seeks to rescue the tireless performance of Benedict XV and salute it, bringing him to the role of one of the important pontificates of the 20th century. 
• The Preferential Option for the Poor and the Social Doctrine of the Church. 50 years after the emergence of Gustavo Gutiérrez's Liberation Theology

  Alarcón Caro, Edmundo (Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, 2022-12-16)

  This article presents an investigation about the 50 years since the publication of the book “Liberation Theology. Perspectives” by renowned Peruvian theologian Gustavo Gutiérrez. The text mainly analyzes the issue of the preferential option for the poor, (OPP) central to the theology of Liberation (TdL) and its relationship with the social doctrine of the church (DSI). A dissonant and not always harmonious relationship, especially in the first moments of the TdL. This article seeks to understand how the OPP becomes a turning point and meeting point between liberation theology and DSI. From the qualitative method (review and analysis of texts) of the most relevant documents of the DSI and the TdL, the consolidation process of the OPP is described, its presence in the Latin American teaching profession and its inclusion in the DSI, especially in the teaching profession. of Pope Francis. It concludes by affirming that the OPP, as a contribution of the Latin American Church to the theological reflection of the universal church, offers the necessary concretion to the social teaching of the church, this has allowed it to change its view of the poor and rediscover that they are not only subjects of help, but can be agents of their own destiny. At the same time, it allows him to freely assume that the OPP is a theological and Christocentric category, announcing it in this way can help awaken Christian awareness of the need to transform reality, from the poor and with the poor.

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