Religion Does Not Redeem

Abstract

"The present contribution starts noting that contemporary theology keeps in general silence about the religious filed and the coexistence of a plurality of religions. The main reason for this fact consists in considering religious pluralism as a danger for the salvific role of Christian faith and critics of the universal and unique pretension of Christianity. In order to break with this “silence”, the author suggests that it would be necessary to break with a monocultural conception of what is conceived as “religion” and to look for intercultural bridges. From an Andean context, it will be indispensable to “interculturalize” the religious phenomenon and deconstruct its concentration on institutional, doctrinal and scriptural aspects in an intercultural perspective. As a conclusion, the author states that in the sense of Liberation theology, it is not religion that liberates or redeems, but engaged faith which recurs to the religious factor as mediation."