Juan Luis Segundo

Juan Luis Segundo SJ (born October 31, 1925 in Montevideo , Uruguay , † January 17, 1996 ibid), philosopher and theologian . He is an important and early proponent of the theology of liberation .

Life

Segundo had been a Jesuit since 1941 , he studied philosophy and theology in Buenos Aires ( licentiate in philosophy 1952), Leuven (licentiate in theology) and Paris (doctor of philosophy 1963).

He then worked as a university chaplain, headed the Pedro Fabro Center for Social Research and Action in Montevideo and published the magazine “Perspectivas de Diálogo” until in 1975 the government had to shut down the center and discontinue the magazine. After that he continued to work with various lay groups.

Segundo taught at universities in Europe, North and Latin America (including Harvard, Chicago, Toronto, Montreal, Birmingham and Sâo Paulo), but never held an academic position in Uruguay.

Theological focuses and achievements

• Hermeneutic circle
• Differentiation between belief and ideology
• Option for the poor
• Christology from the perspective of the poor
• Ecclesiology and Theology of the Second Vatican Council
• Dogma Development as a Deuterol Learning Process (following Gregory Bateson )

bibliography

• Berdiaeff . Une réflexion chrétienne sur la personne , Paris 1963
• Masas y Minorías en la dialéctica divina de la liberación , Buenos Aires 1973
• The option between capitalism and socialism as the theological crux, in: Concilium (D) 10 (1974), 434-443
• Liberation of Theology , Dublin: Gill and Macmillan 1977
• The Hidden Motives of Pastoral Action , Maryknoll: Orbis 1978
• El hombre de hoy ante Jesús de Nazaret , Vols. I and II, Madrid: Ediciones Cristiandad 1982
• Teología abierta , (3 volumes), Madrid: Ediciones Cristiandad 1983-1984
• Teology de la liberación. Respuesta al Cardenal Ratzinger , Madrid: Ediciones Cristiandad 1985
• La opción por los pobres como clave hermenéutica para entender el evangelio, in: Sal Terrae 74 (1986) 473-482 and in: RELaT 118
• The two theologies of liberation in Latin America, in: Michael Sievernich (ed.): Impulse of liberation theology for Europe. A reading book , Mainz: Grünewald 1988, 103-117
• Jesus and his community, in: Giancarlo Collet (ed.): The Christ of the Poor. The Christ testimony of Latin American theology , Freiburg / Breisgau: Herder 1988, 107-126
• El dogma que libera (Presencia Teológica 53), Santander: Sal Terrae 1989
• La historia perdida y recuperada de Jesús de Nazareth. De los Sinópticos a Pablo (Presencia Teológica 65), Santander: Sal Terrae 1991
• ¿Qué mundo? ¿Qué hombre? ¿Qué Dios? (Presencia Teológica 72), Santander: Sal Terrae 1993
• Signs of the Times. Theological Reflections , ed. by Alfred T. Hennelly SJ, Maryknoll: Orbis 1993
• El caso Mateo. Los comienzos de una ética judeocristiana (Presencia Teológica 74), Santander: Sal Terrae 1994
• "Freedom and Liberation" and "Revelation, Faith and Signs of the Times", in: Ignacio Ellacuría ; Jon Sobrino (ed.): Mysterium Liberationis. Basic concepts of the theology of liberation , 1st volume, Lucerne: Exodus 1995, 361-381; 433-460
• El infierno. Un diálogo con Karl Rahner , Montevideo: Trilce; Buenos Aires: Lohlé 1998

Secondary literature

• Stefan Aulbach: Spirituality creates liberation. The blueprint of Christian existence in Juan Luis Segundo . Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1992, ISBN 3-631-45078-8 ( Würzburg Studies on Fundamental Theology 10).
• Norbert Brieskorn : Juan Luis Segundo. From liberation theology to theology liberation . In: Peter Neuner , Gunther Wenz (ed.): Theologians of the 20th century. An introduction. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2002, ISBN 3-534-14963-7 , pp. 217-235
• Gustavo Gutiérrez : Juan Luis Segundo. Una amistad para toda la vida . In: Signos 16, 1, 1996, p. 8.
• Elbio Medina: commitment and intellectuality. On the death of Juan Luis Segundo (1925–1996) . In: Orientation 60, 1996, ISSN  0030-5502 , pp. 85-87.
• Stefan Silber: The Liberation of Cultures. Juan Luis Segundo's contribution to the theology of inculturated evangelization . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2002, ISBN 3-631-38573-0 ( Würzburg Studies on Fundamental Theology 27).
• Stefan Silber: Liberation of the gospel, liberation of cultures. Juan Luis Segundo's contribution to the theology of inculturated evangelization . In: Neue Zeitschrift für Missionswissenschaft 58, 2, 2002, ISSN  0028-3495 , pp. 111-130.
• Stefan Silber:  Segundo SJ, Juan Luis. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 32, Bautz, Nordhausen 2011, ISBN 978-3-88309-615-5 , Sp. 1270-1275.

Web links

• Literature by and about Juan Luis Segundo in the catalog of the German National Library
• detailed bibliography ( Memento from March 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive )