José Porfirio Miranda

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José Porfirio Miranda

José Porfirio Miranda de la Parra (born September 15, 1924 in Monterrey , Mexico ; † October 9, 2001 in Temamatla ) was a Catholic clergyman and Jesuit , philosopher, theologian and economist, author and professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana of the metropolitan area of ​​Mexico- City, and at the Jesuit College in Guadalajara . Miranda wrote fundamental works of liberation theological exegesis and theory formation.

Life

José Porfirio Miranda joined the Jesuit Order in 1943 at the age of 19. He studied philosophy and social sciences from 1945 to 1951 at Loyola University in Los Angeles . In 1953 he began studying theology at the Gregorian University in Rome , which he continued until 1957 at the Hochschule Sankt Georgen in Frankfurt . Studies in economics followed in Münster .

From 1961 Miranda taught at the Jesuit College in Guadalajara (Faculty of Economics). He was also entrusted with advising Catholic entrepreneurs in the city of Guadalajara. But he turned to the workers and organized them. For this reason he was sent to the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome in 1967 , where he wrote his doctoral thesis in exegesis, Marx y la biblia (" Marx and the Bible"), but it was not accepted. In 1969 he wrote El Ser y el Mesías , which was eventually accepted as a dissertation.

After his return to Mexico, Miranda continued to campaign for the interests of the workers and the poor. His critical attitude to the existing economic system brought him into conflict with the interests of the church and his order. Under pressure from the Cardinal of Guadalajara , he was recalled from office. In 1971 he left the Jesuit order. In the same year his book Marx y la biblia was published. In 1973 El Ser y el Mesías appeared and Miranda became a professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico. In 1979 he married Adela Oliveros. In 1981 Comunismo en la Biblia (“The Communism of the Bible”) appeared, in which he tried to prove through exegetical considerations that early Christianity and the work of Jesus were oriented towards communism and that they were in the corresponding tradition of the Old Testament .

After that, Miranda turned to philosophical studies. 1983 appeared Apelo a la Razón ("Appeal to Reason: Philosophy of Science and Critique of Positivism"), 1989 Hegel Tenía Razón ("Hegel was right: The myth of empirical science") and 1990 Racionalidad y Democracia ("Rationality and Democracy") . In 1994, together with his wife Adela Oliveros, he founded the RORAC Foundation, Center for Workers' Education and Philosophical Studies. Miranda also published popular science works on the subjects of his books.

In 1999 his last book Antropología e Indigenismo was published . José Porfirio Miranda died in 2001.

reception

Walter Wink , American professor of biblical exegesis, wrote in 1976 in the journal The Expository Times about Marx and the Bible : "the best book on exegesis published up until now". In the Argentine liberation theological journal Revista de Teoloía Crítica , D. Alberto Macko wrote in 2010 about Marx y la Biblia :

“It is one of the best works of the origins of liberation theology . Porfirio Miranda does not appear in the lists of the "Fathers of Liberation Theology" for a reason that has so far been inexplicable. But the conceptual clarity with which Porfirio Miranda presents his understanding of the biblical message makes this book a must-have for anyone who wants to understand the best (and the bad) of this movement. "

Publications

  • The immorality of current structures ; (Spanish: Cambio de Estructuras. Inmoralidad de la Moral Occidental. , 1970), Jugenddienstverlag, Wuppertal, 1973
  • Marx y la biblia; Critica a la filosofia de la oppression, Sigueme, Salamanca, 1971; [English: Marx and the Bible; A Critique of the Philosophy of Oppression ; Translation by John Eagleson, Orbis Books, Maryknoll, New York, 1974]
  • El Ser y el Mesías , Sígueme, Salamanca, 1973
  • Communism of the Bible ; (Spanish: Comunismo en la Biblia , 1981), translated on the basis of the 3rd edition by Wolfgang Seyfert and Rodrigo Ochoa; Edition ITP-Kompass, Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-981-3562-6-7 .
  • Appeal to Reason: Philosophy of Science and Critique of Positivism , (Spanish: Apelo a la Razón. Teoría de la Ciencia y la Crítica del Positivismo , 1983), Verlag Logos, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3832533007
  • Hegel was right: The myth of empirical science , (Spanish: Hegel Tenía Razón. El Mito de la Ciencia Empírica , 1989), Verlag Die Blaue Eule, 2013, ISBN 978-3899243611
  • Rationality and Democracy (Spanish: Racionalidad y Democracia , 1990), published by Centro de Estudios Filosóficos José Porfirio Miranda, Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2013, ISBN 978-3631643334 .
  • Antropología e Indigenismo , Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana - Iztapalapa; México 1999

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Short biography of José Porfirio Miranda ; in: José Porfirio Miranda: The Communism of the Bible ; from Spanish based on the 3rd edition, translated by Wolfgang Seyfert and Rodrigo Ochoa; Edition ITP-Kompass, Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-981-3562-6-7 , pp. 121–123
  2. ^ A b D. Alberto Macko: Marx y la Biblia (1971), de José Porfirio Miranda ; in: Revista de Teología Crítica , Volume 1, Buenos Aires 2010, ISSN  1853-0702 ; P. 377 ( online )
  3. ↑ a b c Centro de Estudios Filosóficos José Porfirio Miranda: José Porfirio Miranda's Chronology ( Memento of the original dated May 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 30, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / cefmiranda.org
personal data
SURNAME Miranda, José Porfirio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Miranda de la Parra, José Porfirio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican theologian, philosopher, author and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Monterrey , Mexico
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 2001
Place of death Temamatla