Medellín 50 Years Later. From Development to Liberation

Abstract

On January 20, 1968, Pope Paul VI announced the convocation of the Second General Conference of the Latin American Episcopate, and on August 24, 1968 he inaugurated it with a speech delivered at the Cathedral of Bogotá. The work sessions were held at the Medellín Seminary between August 26 and September 6 of that year. Medellín has been considered as “the only example of a continental reception of Vatican II” carried out in a collegial and synodal manner. This article by Rafael Luciani reveals the great theological themes of the Document of Medellín, which account in a prophetic way of speaking theologically. We present here the first part of this collaboration of the Venezuelan theologian, which will be completed in the next issue of our magazine