DÉCADA DE OSTRACISMO: ANÁLISE DA TEOLOGIA DA LIBERTAÇÃO NO BRASIL (1990-2000)

Abstract

The current situation of Liberation Theology is analyzed by theoreticians related to it by their opponents in multifarious ways. Adaptation to new context, crisis and even the announcement of its death are the propositions that one can find in editorials that discuss the subject. This thesis starts from another reading, in order to understand the current status of Liberation Theology in Brazil: that of its ostracism. Having adopted the poor as a starting point for a theological reflection, this theology has paid the price of adopting a new ecclesial model, in disagreement with that of the millennial model of Christianity, adopted by the Roman Catholic Church. The ostracism of Liberation Theology in Brazil could be defined by the abandonment of the poor as the ecclesial cause, formerly adopted as ecclesial priority by the Brazilian church in the last thirty or so years, as well as by the condemnation of Marxism’s adoption as a theoretical reference point, once attempted by this theology. The ostracism of Liberation Theology reflects a framework of conflict between distinct ecclesial models, where disputation for the monopoly of the goods of salvation translates this whole tension. Scholars such as Weber, Bourdieu and Otto Maduro stands as theoretical guides for the perception of the proposed hypothesis.