The construction of a sensitive-liberating spirituality proposal based on José Tolentino Mendonça and Gustavo Gutiérrez.

Abstract

We are experiencing an epochal change, the effects of which are felt in all areas, including spirituality. The current neoliberal economic system reinforces a narcissistic culture indifferent to the land and the poor. This reality is the object of theological reflection. In this sense, we ask ourselves about the possibility of a spirituality that is open to believers and non-believers and that collaborates with the education of conscience in the care of our Common Home. The current socio-environmental crisis needs to be understood from the perspective of sensitivity and liberation. The sensitivity is necessary for empathy, while liberation, the historical process of struggles, for solidarity. The theopoetics of José Tolentino Mendonça and the spirituality of liberation by Gustavo Gutiérrez offer the possibility of spirituality open to all in an ethic of responsibility for caring for the planet, and in particular, otherness, considering the other, the excluded, referred to as a subject of the liberation movement itself. A sensitive-liberating conscience understands spirituality as a collective adventure, participates in the movement of struggles for liberation, and commits itself to the world politically.