Como espiral de vida: aportes de la teolgía feminista de la liberación para otros modelos de liderazgo en las iglesias de América Latina y el Caribe

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.