The Subject and the Defense of the Life of the Victims

Abstract

If the historical situation of dependence and domination of two thirds of humankind, with its 30 million dead from hunger and malnutrition each year, does not become the point of departure of any Christian theology today, even in the rich and dominant countries, theology will not be able to situate and concretize historically its fundamental themes. Its questions will not be real questions. It will pass by the real person. Therefore, as one participant observed at the meeting in Buenos Aires, “it is necessary to save theology from its cynicism.” Because really, facing the problems of today's world, many theological writings are reduced to cynicism.