Gustavo Gutiérrez: um discípulo de Bartolomeu de Las Casas no mundo de hoje

• Autor(a) principal: Diniz, Gonçalo Pereira
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/humanisticaeteologia.2016.9363

With this article, we wish to present a contemporary Dominican theologian, Gustavo Gutiérrez, whose theological thinking is very much influenced by the life and work of the great Spanish missionary of the XVI century, Bartolomé de Las Casas, himself a Dominican. Las Casas was renowned as a vigorous and brave defender of the Indians of the Spanish Americas in the XVI century. About 500 years later, following the main lines of thought of Las Casas, Gustavo Gutiérrez will present to the world of Theology a new perspective: the perspective of the marginalized and poverty stricken masses of Latin America during the decades of 60-80, the great ‘absentees of history’, the ‘non-persons’. In common between both authors we can underline the courage of the prophetic denunciation and the nonconformity with social, political and economic systems founded on oligarch privilege, violence and opression.