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Reflections on “Faith as Freedom” by Gustavo Gutiérrez
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 March 2024
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25 Gutiérrez, Gustavo, A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation, rev. ed., trans. and ed. Inda, Caridad and Eagleson, John (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1988).Google Scholar
26 Gutiérrez, Gustavo, On Job: God-Talk and the Suffering of the Innocent (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1987).Google Scholar
27 Gutiérrez, A Theology of Liberation, 19–20.
28 Latin American Episcopal Conference (CELAM), “Final Document of the Second General Conference of Latin American Bishops,” 1968.
29 Gutiérrez, Gustavo, “Faith as Freedom: Solidarity with the Alienated and Confidence in the Future.” Horizons 2, no. 1 (1975): .CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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31 Gutiérrez, “Faith as Freedom,” 40.
32 Gutiérrez, “Faith as Freedom,” 47.
33 Gutiérrez, “Faith as Freedom,” 56.
34 Gutiérrez, “Faith as Freedom,” 48.
35 Gutiérrez, “Faith as Freedom,” 48.
36 Gutiérrez, “Faith as Freedom,” 49.
37 Gutiérrez, “Faith as Freedom,” 59.
38 Gutiérrez, “Faith as Freedom,” 59.
39 Gutiérrez, On Job, and Gutiérrez, Gustavo, We Drink from Our Own Wells: The Spiritual Journey of a People (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1984).Google Scholar
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41 Gutiérrez, A Theology of Liberation, “Introduction to the Revised Edition: Expanding the View,” 20.
42 Gutiérrez, A Theology of Liberation, 174.
43 Gutiérrez, A Theology of Liberation, 21.
44 CELAM, “Puebla Document: Third General Conference,” 1979.
45 A fascinating exception here is Miguel Díaz’s recent book, Queer God de Amor (New York: Fordham University Press, 2022).Google Scholar
46 That anthropology has certainly brought us many benefits, from unprecedented economic growth and political freedom to inconceivable technological advances. Yet the underside of these benefits has now also become inescapably clear: obscene economic inequality, environmental degradation, the abandonment of millions on whose backs our freedom has been built, a spiraling consumerism that destroys our moral fabric, increasing levels of anxiety, addiction, and depression among our youth, and so on. The antidote will not be an increased dose of individualism, an increased isolation of the individual behind ever higher walls and gates. That’s the problem, not the solution. As Albert Einstein once observed: “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”
47 Gutiérrez himself draws extensively on St. John of the Cross in his We Drink from Our Own Wells, as does Miguel Díaz in Queer God de Amor. Another example of a Latin American theologian who draws on the mystical tradition is Maria Clara Bingemer in her Simone Weil: Mystic of Passion and Compassion (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2015). In North America, a major figure who consistently and powerfully articulated the relationship between mysticism and the option for the poor was the great African American theologian Howard Thurman. See, for example, the collection of Thurman’s sermons in Peter Eisenstadt and Walter Fluker, Earl, eds., The Way of the Mystics (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2021).Google Scholar
48 See, for instance, my (Roberto Goizueta), “In Christ: Theosis and the Preferential Option for the Poor,” in McGinn, Bernard, ed., The Renewal of Mystical Theology: Essays in Honor of John N. Jones (1964–2012) (New York: Crossroad Publishing, 2017), .Google Scholar