Abstract
Introduction: In the early 1970s, social movements directed Latin American theology to a creative process of deprivatization of the Christian faith, reconfiguring - from the community practices of liberation and their holistic implications - the theoretical exercise concerning its political and social commitment. Consequently, the notion of liberation began to be addressed by the opposite equivalent of dependency within the methodological framework of the biblical-theological approach. Objective: To understand the meaning of the opposite correlation between liberation and dependency from their specificities in accordance with the vision of liberation intellectuals, and identify the way in which dependency was appropriate to respond to the responsive and socio-analytical theoretical framework of these intellectuals, linking the reading of reality to the Latin American community practice. Methods: Historical and systematic research, exploratory, under an analytical-descriptive orientation, organized from conceptual schemes. Results: Based on the finding regarding the theoretical refraction of dependency through liberation, the concept emerges as the theological interpretation of an entire theoretical field taken indistinctly, namely the Dependency Theory. Conclusion: The opposite correlation between dependency and liberation as a finding that reveals the similarity between the real that is theorized (dependency) and the hypothetical conceptualization of maxims of action (liberation), comprehended within the general theory of anti-imperialism, resulted in an interdisciplinary theological reflection.
Highlights
In the early 1970s, social movements directed Latin American theology to a creative process of deprivatization of the Christian faith, reconfiguring – from the community practices of liberation and their holistic implications – the theoretical exercise concerning its political and social commitment
We will briefly discuss Latin American theology’s reading of Dependency Theory, which was developed at the core of Developmentalism metatheory between the 1930s and 1950s
Liberation Theology was established as a theological interpretation of social sciences, conditional on Dependency Theory, transferring its own reading of the Latin American empiricism to a supposed delimitation of the theological reflection in the realm of faith
Summary
With the dawn of the 1960s and the entry of social movements on the political agenda in Latin America as well as the need for new interpretations on the continent’s economic and political situation, marked by the paradigm of Development Theory, theology sought to establish new spaces of interpretation of social events. Liberation and dependency: a theological reading of social sciences in Latin America 187 approach, peculiar to contextuality and settled in a reflection that takes the social and political reality as the starting point for theorizing about the Christian social practice. We will briefly discuss Latin American theology’s reading of Dependency Theory, which was developed at the core of Developmentalism metatheory between the 1930s and 1950s. One can see that Liberation Theology has chosen a strictly political option amidst the Latin American Christians’ struggles for liberation over the last decades of the twentieth century
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