Volume 8, Number 3 (2001)
Aesthetics or Liberation? Theological Tensions
This issue of the Journal of Hispanic / Latino Theology, trembles with a palpable tension between theologies of the beautiful in popular worship, and a sharpening critique of the pronounced turn to theological aesthetics we have seen lately among U.S. Latin@ theologians.![](http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/df6g52w1ve7i9lx/wedig.jpg)
We also present a provocative essay from Manuel J. Mejido — “A Critique of the ‘Aesthetic Turn’ in U.S. Hispanic Theology: A Dialogue with Roberto Goizueta and the Positing of a New Paradigm” — which is likely to achieve stature as a classic in future debates over the trajectory of Latino/a theological studies. Mejido undertakes a searching examination of the liberationist claims of Latin@ theologies, finding them to be mostly shallow gestures, fashioned apparently to appease the liberal, Anglo-American theological academy.
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Michelle A. González sketches foundations for a pathbreaking Latina feminist theology, in "Nuestra Humanidad: Toward a Latina Theological Anthropology."
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Editorial
From the Editor
Jean-Pierre Ruiz
Articles
The Visual Hermeneutics of Hispanic / Latino Popular Religion, and the Recovery of the Image in Christian Praxis
Mark E. Wedig O.P.
A Critique of the ‘Aesthetic Turn’ in US. Hispanic Theology: A Dialogue with Roberto Goizueta and the Positing of a New Paradigm
Manuel J. Mejido
Nuestra Humanidad: Toward a Latina Theological Anthropology
Michelle A. González
Book Reviews
La Cosecha: Harvesting Contemporary United States Hispanic Theology
Eduardo C. Fernández S.J.
Embracing Travail: Retrieving the Cross Today
Cynthia S.W. Crysdale
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Editors (vol. 8 no. 3)
- Editor
- Jean-Pierre Ruiz
- St. John's University, New York
- Associate Editor
- Alejandro García-Rivera
- Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley