Diego Irarrázaval

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Diego Irarrázaval CSC (* 1942 ) is a Chilean Roman Catholic religious and liberation theologian .

Career

Irarrázaval, ordained priest in 1984 , belongs to the Congregation of the Holy Cross. In the 1970s he became involved in the political persecution of the regime of Augusto Pinochet . After he had to leave Chile, he worked for a long time (until 2004) as a missionary in Chucuito in the Peruvian highlands. From 1981 to 2004 he also headed the Institute for Aymara Studies ( Instituto de Estudios Aymaras ) in Peru. From 1995 to 2001 he was Vice President and from 2001 to 2006 President of EATWOT , the Ecumenical Association of theologians of the Third World.

Irarrázaval teaches at the Institute for Religious Studies at the Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez (UCSH) in Chile, with a focus on interreligious dialogue and cultural anthropology . He was also parish vicar in a parish in Santiago de Chile (2005–2006).

In his publications Irarrázaval deals with indigenous liberation theology , theology of inculturation and religious theological pluralism . He is co-editor of the international theological journal Concilium .

Fonts (selection)

  • Religión del pobre y liberación. Lima 1978.
  • Tradición y porvenir andino. Lima 1992.
  • Rito y pensar cristiano. Lima 1993.
  • Cultura y fe latinoamericana. Santiago 1994.
  • Inculturación. Lima 1998.
  • La fiesta. Lima 1998.
  • Theology en la fe del pueblo. San José 1999.
  • Un cristianismo andino. Quito 1999.
  • Audacia evangelizadora. Cochabamba 2001.
  • Raíces de la esperanza. Lima 2004.
  • Gozar la espiritualidad. Buenos Aires 2004.
  • Gozar la ética. Buenos Aires 2005.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hernán Ingelmo: Entrevista a Diego Irarrázaval . CETR website. Retrieved February 15, 2011.
  2. ↑ Padre Diego Irarrázaval: un misionero chileno en Perú ( Memento of December 28, 2005 in the Internet Archive ). Website of the Revista Iglesia de Santiago . Retrieved February 15, 2011.
  3. ↑ a b Diego Irarrázaval ( memento of February 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) on the Concilium website . Retrieved February 15, 2011.
  4. ^ Diego Irarrázaval on the website of the magazine Concilium . Retrieved June 21, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Irarrázaval, Diego
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chilean religious and liberation theologian
DATE OF BIRTH 1942