Maria Clara Lucchetti Bingemer

Maria Clara Lucchetti Bingemer (* 1949 ) is a Brazilian , Catholic theologian.

Life

Lucchetti Bingemer completed her studies in Rio de Janeiro with a BA in communication studies . She received a doctorate in theology from the Gregorian in Rome . After Leonardo Boff was banned from speaking and teaching , she represented Boff at his chair in the Franciscan Theological Institute in Petrópolis . She was EATWOT's Regional Coordinator from 1986–1992 . She is currently professor at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) and Dean of the Faculty of Theology and Human Sciences. Lucchetti Bingemer also took part in setting up the Jesuit Centro Loyola de Fé e Cultura (CLFC, Loyola Center for Faith and Culture) at the PUC-Rio, which she directed for ten years.

Lucchetti Bingemer is co-editor of the Revista Eclesiástica Brasileira (REB), the most important theological journal in Brazil, and of Concilium . She was also Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR) from 2004 to 2008 .

Together with her husband Einardo Bingemer, she advises the National Bishops' Conference of Brazil on questions of lay apostolate . Lucchetti Bingemer holds a leading position in the Ignatian lay community of Christian Life .

theology

Lucchetti Bingemer is one of the founders of feminist liberation theology in Latin America. She takes the view that the liberation struggle of Latin American women is inseparable from the liberation struggle of the poor, and she particularly endeavors to develop a feminist-theological anthropology . Lucchetti Bingemer organized the first meeting of Latin American theologians in 1985 and in 2008 also took part in the 1st German-Latin American theological congress in Buenos Aires .

In 2008 she criticized (together with Leonardo Boff and Frei Betto ) Clodovis Boff's attempt to revise liberation theology .

Fonts (selection)

• Christian eschatology (with João Batista Libânio ). Patmos-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1987, ISBN 3-491-77716-X ( Library Theology of Liberation ).
• Mary, Mother of God and Mother of the Poor (with Ivone Gebara ). Patmos-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-491-77718-6 ( Library Theology of Liberation ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Maria Clara Lucchetti Bingemer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Horst Goldstein : "Blessed you poor." Theology of liberation in Latin America ... and in Europe? Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1989, p. 117.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Patrons of Catherine of Siena College ( Memento of the original from July 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Catherine of Siena Virtual College website . Retrieved May 24, 2010.  
3. ↑ Nossa história ( Memento of the original from March 27, 2010 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. . CLFC website. Retrieved May 24, 2010.  
4. ↑ Margit Eckholt: First German-Latin American theological congress in Buenos Aires  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  AGENDA website - Forum for Catholic Theologians. Accessed on May 24, 2010.
5. ↑ Klaus Hart: Clodovis Boff criticizes the liberation theology - his brother Leonardo Boff, Frei Betto and Maria Clara Bingemer reject this as wrong . Klaus Hart's website. Retrieved May 25, 2010.