José Comblin

José Comblin , actually Joseph Comblin , (born March 22, 1923 in Brussels , † March 27, 2011 in Simões Filho near Salvador da Bahia ) was a Belgian-Brazilian clergyman , missionary and Catholic theologian .

Life

Comblin studied in Belgium. He was ordained a priest in 1947 . At the Catholic University of Leuven he became a doctor of theology doctorate . He then worked in pastoral care in Brussels.

From 1958 he lived in Brazil and taught chemistry and physics in Campinas, São Paulo. He got involved with the Catholic Workers' Youth (pt: JOC - Juventude Operária Católica) , a sub-organization of the Catholic Action , and became a professor of the Theological Faculty of the Dominicans in São Paulo. He taught students such as Frei Betto (Carlos Alberto Libânio Christo) OP and Frei Tito (Tito de Alencar Lima) OP. After teaching at the theological faculty in Chile from 1962 to 1965, he was theology professor at the Institute of Recife (ITER) at the invitation of Hélder Câmara . From 1969 he was committed to the creation of training centers for priests and lay people in rural Pernambuco and Paraiba, the cornerstones of the Teologia da Enxada . In 1971 he was expelled from the Brazilian military regime and worked as a pastor in Chile. Here too he set up a seminar. In 1980 he returned to Brazil after expulsion by the Pinochet regime and founded several institutes for the training of lay missionaries.

He published numerous works on liberation theology and was considered one of their fathers.

The Brazilian liberation theologian Paulo Suess , who was a close friend of Comblin , headed his obituary with "José Comblin: migrante, guerreiro, teólogo", in German: "José Comblin: migrant, warrior, theologian".

Fonts

Is Catholic Action Failing? , Styria 1962
The risen one , Styria 1962
Theology of peace. Biblical Foundations , Styria 1963
La iglesia y la ideología de la seguridad nacional , Lima 1976
The Image of Man , Patmos 1987, ISBN 3-491-77712-7
The Holy Spirit , Patmos 1988, ISBN 3-491-77719-4

Web links

Literature by and about José Comblin in the catalog of the German National Library
José Comblin ha muerto . Obituary from atrio.org . Retrieved April 1, 2011.

Individual evidence

↑ José Comblin ( Memento from September 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on Konzilsväter.de . Retrieved March 30, 2011.
^ Paulo Suess: José Comblin: migrante, guerreiro, teólogo . Paulo Suess's blog . Retrieved March 30, 2011.
↑ On March 27, the liberation theologian José Comblin died . Website of the Institute for Theology and Politics Münster, March 28, 2011. Accessed March 30, 2011.

personal data
SURNAME	Comblin, José
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Comblin, Joseph (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Belgian-Brazilian liberation theologian, author and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH	March 22, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH	Brussels
DATE OF DEATH	March 27, 2011
Place of death	Simões Filho near Salvador da Bahia

[1] José Comblin ( Memento from September 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on Konzilsväter.de . Retrieved March 30, 2011.

[2] Paulo Suess: José Comblin: migrante, guerreiro, teólogo . Paulo Suess's blog . Retrieved March 30, 2011.

[3] On March 27, the liberation theologian José Comblin died . Website of the Institute for Theology and Politics Münster, March 28, 2011. Accessed March 30, 2011.