Abstract

GONZALEZ GAVIRIA, Luis Fernando. Recovery of the Eschatological Dimension of History. A Reading of Medellin Conference for the Twenty-First Century. Cuest. teol. [online]. 2019, vol.46, n.105, pp.29-73. ISSN 0120-131X.  https://doi.org/10.18566/cueteo.v46n105.a02.

Theological practice during the twentieth century has recovered Eschatology. Such recovery is not repetition, but discontinuity, which makes possible to link it directly to the history of the human being. This theological work has allowed abandoning the excessive metahistorical language, typical of Neo-Scholasticism, which disarticulates the Eschatology of reality. It is precisely in this point that Medellin Conference makes possible for eschatological reflection to be thought of, proposed and lived. The latter is done by rescuing the taste for "next-to-last things", making the very reality of human beings the primal place of God's happening -always in the light of Incarnation-, and by orienting it towards their fulfillment. Thus, Eschatology in Medellin Conference is historical, incarnated and happening within the world. The article has three parts: Medellin as inheriting a theological legacy, Medellin and its view of Eschatology, and Eschatology as a historical-salvific happening. Through an analytical and critical approach to the conference, an updated hermeneutic is developed, which shows that Medellin opened a new path to existentially grasp Eschatology, a path that is history as Incarnation.

Keywords : Medellin; Eschatology; History; Liberation; Salvation.

        · abstract in Spanish | Portuguese     · text in Spanish     · Spanish ( pdf )