La Revista Iberoamericana de Teología (Ribet) es una publicación semestral del Departamento de Ciencias Religiosas de la Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México, para difundir e intercambiar investigaciones teológicas relevantes en torno a las diversas áreas de la teología. En este sentido, la Ribet pretende ser un foro académico, especializado y plural para reflexionar y dialogar aquellas temáticas teológicas de actualidad desde América Latina.

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  • A READING OF ECOFEMINIST ITINERARIES AT THE CROSSROADS BETWEEN SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL DECONSTRUCTIONS

    Álvarez, S.J, Carlos (Universidad Iberoamericana, 2024-01-05)
    In this contribution we seek to explore the intersection between spiritual experience and ecofeminist epistemological deconstructions in Latin America. Our hypothesis is that the “spiritual experience” of ecofeminist resistance groups is inextricably linked to the intuition of ongoing epistemological ruptures. In order to verify this hypothesis, we chose some of Ivone Gebara’s and Arianne Van Andel’s main writings as the focus of our research, by engaging them in a dialogue with Michel de Certeau’s reflections on the act of believing and spiritual experience. The analysis of their ecofeminist itineraries shows us that they would be affected by three major tectonic movements: a) the new ecological consciousness; b) the decolonial turn of thought in Latin America; c) a new gender consciousness that seeks to break out of the drifts of a patriarchal schema. Their accounts and reflections allow us to recognise the constitutive and questioning links between the act of believing, vulnerable and deconstructing subjectivities and spiritual experience.
  • THE INEFFABLE OF GOD FROM JEWISH LITERATURE AND PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANITY

    Ramírez-Treviño, Enrique (Universidad Iberoamericana, 2024-01-05)
          
  • HELPLESSNESS AND CONJURE FIGURES OF EVIL AND THEIR SOCIAL CONTROL

    Fernández Hart, S.J., Rafael (Universidad Iberoamericana, 2024-01-05)
    In contemporary society, evil is fought through behaviours, practices and strategies that seek to contain it. However, even among believers, representations such as the devil or hell have lost their effectiveness, which consisted in “locating” or confining the enemy and, at the same time, in activating a moral or spiritual vigilance. Beyond the secularization that deconstructs symbols and their operational-practical capacity, the truth is that evil is not only still present in society, but that it seems to wreak the very havoc it seeks to prevent. In this article, we explore a pictorial and spiritual contemplation of hell in order to answer the question: how does society resist, contain or conjure metaphysical evil? Our aim is to explore what strategies society uses against evil and whether they are effective. The study employs philosophy and theology to convey a philosophy of spirituality. This will reveal a kind of catechetical indigence, since some of the strategies for containing evil, even if they seemed educational, far from warding off evil, have perpetuated it.
  • ETERNAL LIFE: CHRISTIAN PROMISE, TRANSHUMANIST OBJECTIVE A REFLECTION FROM LATIN AMERICA

    García Caballero, Lorena (Universidad Iberoamericana, 2024-01-04)
    The article is based on humanity’s fear of death, facing its finiteness and vulnerability. Based on this, it presents how, since ancient times, there have been attempts to mitigate this existential anguish in cultural imaginaries. The idea of the body is presented as a common concept between epochs and currents as different and non-compatibles as Christianism and Transhumanism. It is not the purpose of this paper to compare, much less equating their proposals of resurrection and eternal life respectively, but rescue the analogy they share because both currents of thought try, from their trenches, to offer a firm ground thinking about uncertainty and anguish when facing death. The concept of “embodiment” is used in this text for Latin America as a collective form in which diverse bodies directly face the abstract body of Transhumanism. Latin America has a lot to say regarding these techno-scientific visions and globalizing objectives such as those promoted by Transhumanism. Reflecting on techno-scientific hegemony, this article sustains the idea that there is a kind of unity between bodies that, in relationship and interaction, confront the abstract body and its theoretical bases that does not represent the complexity of the plurality, identity, community, society, ethics and politics of Latin Americans. Although what it is discussed here is not an exclusive Latin American issue, we explore it in this text as a paradigmatic case to think about what the transhumanist promise could mean as something that is proposed to be viable and accessible to anyone. We recognize that there are population groups in Latin America that could feel identified with that promise and some people could not or did not want to access it. Our interest is not in describing why some do and others do not. We are interested in emphasizing that the same promise is ignoring the bodies and what is linked with them. The impossibility of access is not due to what this or that group represents, but to the promise itself.
  • PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO CONTEMPORARY LATIN AMERICAN RELIGIOUS SUBJECTIVITIES

    Reyes Linares, Pedro A. (Universidad Iberoamericana, 2024-01-05)
        
  • JESUS CHRIST: THE WORD AND EVENT OF FATHER’S MERCY

    García Reynoso, Ramón (Universidad Iberoamericana, 2024-01-05)
            
  • NOVOHISPANIC FEMALE SPIRITUALITY: MYSTICISM, ILLNESS AND SEXUAL POLITICS

    Narváez Martínez, Carolina (Universidad Iberoamericana, 2024-01-05)
    The article aims to link practices of Novohispanic female spirituality with a long tradition of mysticism dating back to the European Middle Ages. The tour is made from an inquisitorial file in which Sister Ana María de Santa Inés La Cal is accused of illusory and illuminated in New Spain at the end of the 18th century. The approach to this dossier involves concepts such as mysticism, enlightenment and illumination, while analyzing the mystical experience of Sister Anne Marie in the light of the sexual politics of the time. In this article we will be able to observe the tension existing between cataloguing or classifying a mystic or a sick woman, taking into account that for this moment a dispute develops that focuses on the restructuring of the different experiences of faith. There is a particular inquiry into the illnesses experienced by the nun, which are less and less associated with the mystical phenomenon and more linked to female diseases, mainly the result of disorders associated with the uterus. This article contributes to recognition of the tradition of Novohispanic feminine spirituality and proposes a reading from the thought of sexual difference to the history of diseases classified as “feminine”.
  • THE BAROQUE TURN IN LATIN AMERICAN THEOLOGY: THE SERVICE OF PHILOSOPHY

    Reyes Linares, Pedro A. (Universidad Iberoamericana, 2024-01-05)
    The article analyzes the constitutive tensions of the Latin American theological discourse in the last century (identified as “Liberation Theology”) under the light of Bolivar Echeverria’s concept “baroque ethos”, showing the trajectory of a movement from the very first intention of liberation to a discourse of radical inclusion, representative of fundamental tensions configuring the continent. This intention of radical inclusion, expressed in an each time broader welcoming of persons and groups, uses a philosophy that unveils the political vocation of religious and theological discourses, aiming for the unification of the different, but also serving the necessary distance, both in discourse and praxis, that the very own corporeities living in the continent claim, keeping its fundamental dialectics.
  • WALKING THE BODY AND SENSIBILITY PILGRIMAGE AS AN EVENT OF SUBJECTIVITY AND THE SACRED

    Méndez-Gallardo, Mariana (Universidad Iberoamericana, 2024-01-04)
    Perhaps despised by many theorists, historians, and anthropologists for being outside the institutionalized and ordered “facts”, or the “historicity” of prestigious and not repeated events,[1] pilgrimages are “phenomena” that bring us closer to the analysis of individual and social subjectivities richly displayed through their rituals. Making use of the analysis of some of the ritual elements that make up the pilgrimage to Chalma in Mexico, we will review how pilgrims experience being body, flow and movement and we will analyze certain phenomenological experiences such as those of liminality, to think about the sacred reality outside the traditional categories and to be able to pose the problem of the religious as an irruption of novelty or event. This, despite often expressing itself in a strange and metaphorical way, can provide us with key elements to analyze Latin American subjectivities by manifesting what in the normal daily functioning of their social structures becomes invisible, inadequate, or impossible.
  • DANCE AND CHOREOPOLITICAL PERFORMANCE AS PROVOCATIONS FOR THE EMBODIMENT OF DIVINITY AND THEOLOGY

    Arboleda Mutis, Zohanny (Universidad Iberoamericana, 2024-01-05)
          
  • TEOLOGÍA Y NEUROCIENCIAS: EL SER HUMANO EN TIEMPOS DE NATURALISMO CIENTÍFICO THEOLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE: THE HUMAN BEING IN TIMES OF SCIENTIFIC NATURALISM

    Barone, Christian (Universidad Iberoamericana, 2024-01-05)
    The diversification of cognitive abilities, selected from Homo Sapiens’ evolutionary past, means that humans do not present a brain preordained to a single function. On the contrary, the extraordinary nature of human cognition consists precisely in being non-specialized. From such biological indeterminacy flows the incalculable variety of human cultures. In the attempt to explain the “human phenomenon,” what value do theological and philosophical anthropologies retain compared to the narrative about man proposed by the so-called “exact sciences”? Neurosciences today seem to repropose the methodological instance that, at the dawn of Modernity, moved scientific-empirical knowledge in search of a general and formal language capable of explaining every aspect of reality and man. The danger posed by their way of “saying man” is that of proposing a neural-based reductionist materialism. However, neuroscientific research can shed new light on the dimension of subjectivity and human experience, deepening theological reflection in the anthropological field.
  • Pecado original ¿o gracia del perdón?

    Quezada del Río, Javier (Universidad Iberoamericana, 2005-07-01)
       
  • Retos actuales de la Iglesia

    Estrada Díaz, Juan A. (Universidad Iberoamericana, 2005-07-01)
    Globalisation and Postmodernity are the new challenges for the Church. It is necessary to dare a transformation of the ecclesiastical structures for a new missions’ situation. The communion’s ecclesiology, the new role of the Pope and the Episcopal collegiality offer possibilities of a revitalisation and refoundation of the Church’s structure. The promotion of the Laity and the women involvement in Church’s Life activity and Mission is also an answer to the World’s Challenge. Another Problem is the culture’s mutation, the need of another spirituality centralised at God’s experience in Life. A new creation of synthesis between faith and culture will renew Christian Capacity. The new World’s role has to deal with Justice in the World and Church of the poor People. This article offers concrete suggestions about Church’s mission and its internal Constitution.
  • Las fronteras del diálogo fe y cultura

    de Pomposo, Alexandre S. F. (Universidad Iberoamericana, 2005-07-01)
       
  • El paradigma que viene: reflexiones sobre la teología del pluralismo religioso

    Vigil, José María (Universidad Iberoamericana, 2007-01-08)
    The Theology of Religious Pluralism (TPR according to Spanish initials) has yet to be known by the general public, and is being reviled by its institutional critics. However, it is making its first inroads, slowly but firmly, in today’s theological thought. The author acknowledges this situation and presents his reflections on the meaning, scope and implications of this theology.
  • El libro de Job

    Quezada, Javier (Universidad Iberoamericana, 2006-01-09)
    After making a list of the principal literary genres which have been attributed to the book of Job, the author proposes the genre phsycologic drama as the best to evaluate the contents and the meaning of the book. To this statement the author adds that this drama is presented in the form of a panel and that the issue of this panel is theinterpretations of God’s actions in the history. After this, the author analyses the theology and the most important anthropological implications of each panellist. To do that, the author takes either complete texts (prologue-epilogue; chapter 28; the last answer of Job to God in Job 42,1-6) or representative ones. Each text is presented by a solid literary analysis and one proposition of translation.
  • XI Asamblea General de la Conferencia de Instituciones Católicas de Teología (CICT/COCTI) enero-febrero 2008

    Zatyrka, Alexander (Universidad Iberoamericana, 2008-01-07)
      
  • Proyecto de traducción al español de la Biblia de los LXX

    Quezada del Río, Javier (Universidad Iberoamericana, 2006-01-09)
      
  • IX Simposio Internacional de Teología: voces de la iglesia en América Latina

    Sota García, Eduardo (Universidad Iberoamericana, 2007-07-02)
       

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