Comblin

Theology and Life

Authors

  • Alder Júlio Calado Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25247/2595-3788.2025.v8n1.p4-11

Keywords:

Comblin, Freedom, Spirity

Abstract

We are living in dark and deeply challenging times, even in the most diverse fields of knowledge. At the specific level of Theology (or Theologies), the challenges are no less. The journal “Fronteiras” (Frontiers), of Theology, maintained by the Catholic University of Pernambuco “UNICAP”, continuing its critical exercise of interlocution with different types of knowledge in our reality, this time proposes a dialog with/about the theologian José Comblin (1923-2011). A member of the first generation of Liberation Theology, the son of Firmino and Alice Comblin, he was born in Brussels, Belgium, on March 22, 1923. He was the first-born of the couple's five children (three men: André and Jacques; and two women - Colette and Monique). At the time, Europe was in turmoil as a result of two major world wars (World War I, 1914-1918, and World War II, 1939-1945).

 

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Author Biography

  • Alder Júlio Calado, Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB)

    Doutor em Anthropologie et Sociologie du Politique - Université de Paris VIII (1991). Mestre em Sociologia pela Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (1979) e Licenciado em Ciências Sociais pela Faculdade de Filosofia Ciências e Letras de Caruaru (1972). Emérito da Universidade Federal da Paraíba [UFPB]

References

COMBLIN, Joseph. L’échec de l’action Catholique”. Paris: PUF, 1961.

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COMBLIN, José. O espírito no mundo. Petrópolis: Vozes, 1978.

SEGUNDO, Juan Luis. Función de la Iglesia y la Realidad Rioplatense. Motevideo: Barreiro y Ramos,1962.

DUSSEL, Enrique. Politique et théologie de la libération L´expérience Latino Américaine.Conférence annuelle. Département Interfacultaire d’Histoire et Scienses des Religions. Université de Lausanne. Mercredi 24 octobre 2012. Disponível em: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoQo63KaN2o. Acesso em: 26 de junho de 2025.

CONCÍLIO VATICANO II. Constituição Pastoral Gaudium et Spes: sobre a Igreja no mundo actual. Vatican: Editrice Vaticana, 1965. Disponível em: https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19651207_gaudium-et-spes_po.html. Acesso em: 19 de junho de 2025.

MUGGLER, Mônica. José Comblin: uma vida guiada pelo Espírito. São Bernardo do Campo, SP: Nhanduti, 2013.

Published

2025-08-08

How to Cite

CALADO, Alder Júlio. Comblin: Theology and Life. Fronteiras - Revista de Teologia da Unicap, Recife, PE, Brasil, v. 8, n. 1, p. 4–11, 2025. DOI: 10.25247/2595-3788.2025.v8n1.p4-11. Disponível em: https://www1.unicap.br/ojs/index.php/fronteiras/article/view/3282.. Acesso em: 5 dec. 2025.

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