RT Article
T1 Catholicism and the building of Latin American culture: The reflections of Alberto Methol Ferré
JF Religion compass
VO 11
IS 9/10
SP 1
OP 10
A1 Díaz, Bárbara
A2 Podetti, Ramiro
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1566849160
AB In this paper, we present the special relationship between Catholicism and Latin American history, as seen by a Latin American thinker, Alberto Methol Ferré (Uruguay, 1919-2009). It is difficult to classify Alberto Methol Ferré within a specific discipline, due to the variety of the issues that he addressed: from Theology to Philosophy, from History to Politics and Geopolitics. Closely connected to his own time, he was fully engaged with the challenging features of the century he lived in. In this article, we shall first look into Methol Ferre's intellectual sources and examine his ideas on God and on people, in particular Latin American people. We shall then explore his theological interpretation of Latin American history and sketch a perspective of the relationship between the Catholic Church and Latin America, as he perceived it.
K1 Christianity ; Religion ; Subjects
K1 Modern Ideologies and Faith ; Compass Sections
K1 Religions in the Americas ; Compass Sections
DO 10.1111/rec3.12239