The laity in Medellín: memories and new perspectives

• Autor(a) principal: Kuzma, Cesar
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Horizonte - Revista de Estudos de Teologia e Ciências da Religião
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.pucminas.br/index.php/horizonte/article/view/P.2175-5841.2018v16n50p632
• topic: laity; Medellín; Second Vatican Council; Church; Latin America; Religion Science; Theology; leigos; Medellín; Vaticano II; Igreja; América Latina; Ciências da Religião; Teologia

The article we present intends to reflect on the vocation and mission of the laity described in the Medellín Document and is dedicated to a rescue of the memories that we can collect after 50 years, but also in view of the new perspectives that the Document itself brings us today. Medellín was important for the history of the Church of Latin America and to return to this conference can offer us new clues and new understandings for situations that we live in today, both in the Church and in society. Like the Second Vatican Council, Medellín was important for a new position of the laity in the Church and for a new understanding of their action in society, with autonomy and responsibilities that are their own. In this article, we will pay special attention to the Second Vatican Council and its creative reception in Medellín. We will explore aspects of the chapter dealing exclusively with the laity, and then we will discuss some of the issues that the theme provokes us and that, after 50 years, these issues are current and offer new ways.