La teología del pueblo y la teoría populista: una comparación entre Scannone y Laclau

Salinas, Alejandra Lizbeth Buenaño

doi:10.46553/colec.31.2.2020.p41-71

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“…5 There are, however, links between Argentinean Peronism and expressions of a 'theology of the people', 'teología del pueblo' with affinities to liberation theology, see, e.g., Salinas, A. (2020) 7 See https://www.plazapublica.com.gt/content/133-anos-decondena-excoronel-por-el-asesinato-de-5-jesuitas-en-elsalvador.…”

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‘The Crucified People’ in Latin American Liberation Theology: An Expression of ‘Jesuit Populism’?

Stålsett

2023

Iberoamericana – Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies

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The possible relationship between Latin American populism and liberation theology has received limited scholarly attention. Loris Zanatta, an Italian scholar of populism in Latin America, has recently claimed that there is a strong connection between populism and liberation theology. All populisms in Latin America, he states, have profound links not only to Hispanic Christendom, but also, and more specifically, to the influential presence and work of the Jesuit order in the region (Zanatta 2020). For Zanatta, Latin American populisms are all variants of 'Jesuit populism' and liberation theology should be seen as a central part of this populist project in the region. The purpose of this article is to address the possible interconnection by examining the reverse direction of influence or affinity. Focusing on a particular expression coined by Jesuit liberation theologian Ignacio Ellacuría (d. 1989): 'el pueblo crucificado,' I ask to what degree this conceptualization could be seen as a 'populist' soteriology? The study identifies some apparent structural and ideational affinities. However, the closer reading of the Jesuit liberation soteriology of Ellacuría does not reveal any significant historical or conceptual populist influence. Hence, it is inferred that Zanatta's claim that Latin American liberation theology should be seen as an ideology of 'Jesuit populism' lacks substantiation.

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‘The Crucified People’ in Latin American Liberation Theology: An Expression of ‘Jesuit Populism’?

Stålsett

2023

Iberoamericana – Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies

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Vox populi (Dei), vox Dei: Pope Francis’ Theology of the People of God, the Priesthood of All Believers and Democracy

von Sinner

2024

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The Holy See is an absolute monarchy, both as a political and as a spiritual entity. The Second Vatican Council indicated, retrieving biblical terms and metaphors, a new way of giving value to the whole people of God, the laity (laos theou), constituted by baptism. Rather than a societas perfecta in a pyramidal system, the intention was to declericalise and in this sense democratise the church and its decision-making, not least seeking to secure its witness in an ever more secular world. Even if a sacramental and ontological difference is maintained, this indicates clergy are no longer a first class of believers against which the laity would be a second class; rather, they are rooted and stand with and within the whole people of God with their specific vocation and ordination. The notion of the royal and universal priesthood of believers, taken from 1 Peter 2:9 and emphasised by Luther and other reformers as they distributed power between ordained and not ordained leaders, was visible in the Second Vatican Council and finds new enactment in the synodality process which culminated in the Ordinary Synod in Rome, in October 2024. Based on his own theology of the people of God, developed during the dictatorship and economic oppression in Argentina, with strong cultural and religious connotations, Pope Francis seeks to further major involvement of the laity and especially of women in the church’s administration and transformation processes. Not surprisingly, this process has been receiving criticism both from those who find it is not going far enough and from those who believe the process has already gone far too far. Based on bibliographical and documental research, the intention of this article is to describe and analyse the notion of the people of God as proposed by Pope Francis and its forms of concretisation including its deficiencies, as well as, in dialogue with ongoing debates on populism, highlight the precariousness of any “people” as a concept and as a reality. A dynamic notion of “people” and a theological accountability of the people and the clergy towards each other, towards God and towards the world can do justice to both the ambiguities and the irreplaceability of the people as citizens of the church as well as the world.

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Mito, verdad y razón en la filosofía política: el caso del populismo

Salinas

2023

Rev. Fe y Lib.

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Este trabajo explora la relación entre mito, verdad y razón en las teorías filosóficas referentes a la naturaleza y el fin de la comunidad política. Se ofrece primero un marco filosófico de referencia para luego presentar el pensamiento del principal filósofo del populismo, Ernesto Laclau. Este analiza el mito marxista y el mito liberal; descarta al primero por ser totalitario y racionalista, y al segundo, por ser individualista e institucionalista. En contraposición, ofrece una teoría del mito populista basada en categorías psicoanalíticas y discursivas, alejada de consideraciones sobre la verdad y la razón. Sin embargo, como señalan algunos pensadores católicos, una visión disociada de la verdad y la razón, que permanezca en el plano del mito, corre el riesgo de promover la irracionalidad y el conflicto en política.

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La teología del pueblo y la teoría populista: una comparación entre Scannone y Laclau

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‘The Crucified People’ in Latin American Liberation Theology: An Expression of ‘Jesuit Populism’?

‘The Crucified People’ in Latin American Liberation Theology: An Expression of ‘Jesuit Populism’?

Vox populi (Dei), vox Dei: Pope Francis’ Theology of the People of God, the Priesthood of All Believers and Democracy

Mito, verdad y razón en la filosofía política: el caso del populismo

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