Abstract:
The Lutheran churches in Latin America and the Caribbean have been participating
since 2007 of the Sustainability Program. This Program was a result of the initiative
of the Department of Mission and Development of the Lutheran World Federation
with the main goal at together reflecting about their own sustainability. This paper
proposes to use hermeneutical keys based on Feminist Liberation Theology to reflect
about new ecclesiastical models and new models of leadership. The main argument
is that using Feminist Liberation Theology as the lenses for the analysis of the
leadership of those churches allows envisioning new ways of interpreting
ecclesiastical structures that are more participatory and inclusive. Feminist Theology
of Liberation proposes the hermeneutical spiral as method for analysis and
challenges to look at the ecclesiastical models in dialog with the daily experiences of
women and other excluded groups. It calls to understand the church as a relational
structure, as a concentric spiral, always open, interconnected with all things.
