vol. 10 núm. 2 (2019)

Münster: Aschendorff Verlag GmbH & Co, 2015, pp. 534. ISBN: 978-3-402-10289-3.

It is desirable to offer a Lecture of the Pope’s thought, suspecting in it an approach of a new ecclesial paradigm. A new vision of being human and from the world; a new ecclesiology and spirituality; whose pillar is “tenderness”. On the basis of the Council and listening not only to the local Churches around the world, but to other Churches, the Pope is inviting to a revolution. Switching from theoretical and cold formulations to concrete commitments and gestures of welcome, of true affection, of humble service and, above all, of closeness and iden-tification with the poor. With this, it encourages us to bear witness to our human, ecclesial and spiritual identity with concrete expressions of tenderness, until living a mystique of tenderness.

The present work wants to highlight the importance of the spirituality of joy, as the way by which we must advance in the Christian life to achieve our true Christian being and bring us to a permanent state of happiness. But also, it is intended to make clear in this work that any reflection or proposal that we make about the spirituality of joy, must take into account and take into account a pastoral mission that promotes the experiences of the joy of the Gospel. The Salesian Charism is suggested as a proposal of holiness from a profound joy in the everyday. Don Bosco constantly repeated: “For us, holiness consists in being always happy.”

In the present article we will reflect on the dialogical function of theology that begins to be assumed as a central element in theology with the Second Vatican Council. It will be the Gaudium et spes Constitution and the theological, magisterial and cultural development immediately afterwards that will allow us to understand how dialogue constitutes the con-dition of possibility to live, in Francisco’s terms, an authentic culture of encounter.

The Christian life is intimately penetrated by the presence of God that embraces all of exis-tence. Saint Ignatius of Antioch offers a spiritual itinerary centred on the unity by which this infusion of God is interpreted. The relevance of the Christian mystical experience is something preeminent in the idea of a Church, which goes forth, either as an internaliza-tion of the unity of the mystical body of Christ, or because of the need for the community experience of evangelization. The mystique of unity based on the unity of God and lived in the ecclesial community is a proposal of life coherent with the mystery of Christ, an option to authentically live the Christian vocation.

Existence of evil has been the starting point for many reflections on its origin, experience and meaning. From theology, the problem has been related to the question of theodicy: Why does God allow evil to exist in the world? The answer of this questioning will be vital when it comes to understanding the implications of Christian revelation in everyday life. Therefore, after elaborating the fundamental lines of this theological problem, in the article some of its classic solutions are critically exposed. Then, different horizons of understanding are proposed to rethink the existence of evil, in virtue, mainly, of the contributions coming from the new political theology. The above makes possible the dynamic reflection of Christian practice.

This article comes from questioning the reconfiguration of religion in the contemporary world, for which purpose it proposes the analysis of the influence of religious beliefs on the appropriation of territory and the production of territorialities in the municipalities of Choachi and Ubaque, Cundinamarca. For this, and without denying the pre-eminence of the Catholic religion, the ideas of a group of people who speak from the updating of the Muis-ca tradition are also retaken. The hypothesis to develop is that the territory is a register, index and factor of the dispute for the resignification of the past, in the distinction between the memory by the ancestral (the Muisca) and the weight of a tradition (the Catholic reli-giosity), while that territoriality pleads for the harmonious confluence (albeit conflictive) consistent with the production of senses proper to the circulation of beliefs: while territory is firmness, territoriality is the belief in act.

The purpose of this paper is to expose the state of art of religious transformation: Freedom of Religion-State, education and secularism of El Salvador from the Colony to the present, providing an overview of this relationship in Salvadoran society and how with the course from the year’s other religions in the country were established. For the collection of infor-mation, bibliography related to the subject was consulted. As a main result, it was found that freedom of worship exists in El Salvador. Finally, a reflection is made on the impor-tance of religion in the lives of people and because there is a need to believe in a supreme being who is aware of the needs of his people.

Roma: Lipa, 2018, pp. 117.ISBN: 978-88-89667-91-0.

The duty to know the specific context in which each Church is rooted, is a necessary con-dition for the construction of a pastoral and missionary action coherent with the different changes that shape the current society. In particular, with reference to the urban context, such action must respond to the demands of unity in complexity, solidarity and humanity.The great and rapid growth of the city, for example, caused the relationship Church - City to be diluted, as the parish as the religious life in the city came to occupy a second place in the life of the citizen. The context in which the urban Church lives, undoubtedly influences and affects its way of being and self-understanding, therefore it will have to work to orga-nize its structures and build an adequate pastoral and missionary praxis.