Clodovis Boff
Clodovis Boff OSM (* 1944 in Concórdia , Santa Catarina , Brazil) is a member of the Servite Order and a Brazilian liberation theologian .
Life
The younger brother of Leonardo Boff studied philosophy in Mogi das Cruzes and theology at the Catholic University of Leuven . In Leuven he also received his doctorate in theology. He was professor at the Franciscan Theological Institute of Petrópolis and at the Pontifical University in Rio de Janeiro and at the Pontifical Faculty of Marianum , the theological faculty of his order, in Rome . In 1984, due to his radical theological commitment to liberation theology, he lost both his chair at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and his teaching permit at the Marianum. Today he lives in Curitiba and teaches at the Pontifical University there. He has also resumed his work at the Marianum.
One of his better-known students is the Korean-born Catholic theologian Jung Mo Sung, who has lived in Brazil since 1966 .
Positions
Clodovis Boff had already declared in 1986 that the adoption of Marxist categories had led to carelessness and exaggeration in the early phases of liberation theology. 20 years later, Marcella asked Althaus-Reid in view of Boff's obviously less conflictual theology, who had "put him on a leash". In October 2007, in an article in the Revísta Eclesiástica Brasilera (REB) magazine entitled “Theology of Liberation and the Return to Basics”, Boff accused liberation theology of having strayed from its “roots” over time and to have gone the wrong way. In other articles, Clodovis Boff broke with the form of liberation theology that he had previously represented and, as a result of an exchange of blows in several articles, with his brother Leonardo Boff. According to his brother's assessment, Clodovis Boff now supported the line given by the Latin American bishops at the 2007 Aparecida Conference "with naive optimism and youthful enthusiasm" . Together with his companion Gustavo Gutiérrez , he tried to improve relations with the bishops and the Pope .
Works
- Theology and Practice - The epistemological foundations of the theology of liberation . Kaiser, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-459-01505-5 .
- Liberation of the Poor: Reflections on the Fundamental Concern of Latin American Liberation Theology . Ed. Exodus, 1986, ISBN 3-905575-18-3 .
- Leonardo Boff: How to theology drives of liberation? Patmos Verlag, Düsseldorf 1986, ISBN 3-491-77653-8 .
- with Peter Rottländer (ed.): Theology of Liberation and Marxism . Edition Liberaciòn, 1986, ISBN 3-923792-21-2 .
- with Norbert Greinacher (Ed.): Reversal and New Beginning: the North-South Conflict as a Challenge to theology and the Church of Europe . Ed. Exodus, 1986, ISBN 3-905575-15-9 .
- with Jorge Pixley : The option for the poor . Experience of God and Justice. Patmos, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-491-77713-5 .
See also
Web links
credentials
- ↑ Clodovis Boff: The Liberation of the Poor. 1986, p. 26.
- ↑ Marcella María Althaus-Reid: Who put Clodovis Boff on a leash? The “genitive theologies” from the perspective of the 21st century. In: Concilium 42, 2006, pp. 210-218.
- ↑ Liberation theology divides the Boff brothers . In: Catholic. Church and Culture Magazine , July 18, 2008. Retrieved February 6, 2011.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boff, Clodovis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Brazilian liberation theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Concórdia , Santa Catarina , Brazil |