Browsing by Author "Jorge Costadoat, S. J."

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    The "signs of the times" in liberation theology
    (PONTIFICIA UNIV CATOLICA CHILE, FACULTAD TEOLOGIA, 2007) Jorge Costadoat, S. J.
    The Theology of Liberation receives Vatican II in a creative manner, precisely because, in a way similar to Gaudium et Spes, which puts the Church on alert to the voice of God in history, the Theology of Liberation is born out of a Church that recognizes in the poor of the Latin American continent a divine call for its liberation. "The signs of the times" represent, for the continental Church, and for the Theology of Liberation in particular, a way of placing oneself within one's own Latin American world, in search of the presence and the will of God. In this article, the importance of the "signs of the times" for the method of the Theology of Liberation is underlined, the principal theological suppositions of this theology are examined, and it finishes off with what would be the "sign of the times" in Latin America, the irruption of the poor.
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    The faith of Jesus, foundation for faith in Christ
    (PONTIFICIA UNIV CATOLICA CHILE, FACULTAD TEOLOGIA, 2007) Jorge Costadoat, S. J.
    What the Church believes of Christ finds its roots in Jesus' manner of believing in God. However, at the same time, the faith of the Church allows one to infer how the spiritual experience of Jesus came about. This reciprocal reference between Christ and the Church invites one to investigate the anthropological and theological tenets of the faith "of" Jesus, in the difficulties and possibilities that Jesus could have had in order to believe in his Father, given that he teaches us accordingly why and how to believe as well. In this way we discover that the Father, upon raising up Jesus, triumphs over the Mysterium iniquitatis and, against every suspicion of a possible indifference on the God's part in the face of human suffering, gives proof of being a God who deserves faith. The Father deserves faith, but he wouldn't if He did not also "believe" in humanity, just as He "believed" in his Son, Jesus. It is the love of the Father that, in the final analysis, brings about trust in Him and among people.