The first evangelization and the identity of Latin America

• Autor: Martínez Ferrer, Luis
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2009
• Institución: Universidad Católica San Pablo
• Repositorio: Revistas - Universidad Católica San Pablo
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistas.ucsp.edu.pe:article/423
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistas.ucsp.edu.pe/index.php/Allpanchis/article/view/423
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Evangelización fundante; primera evangelización; culturas indígenas; sincretismo; teología india; mestizaje cultural

There are three positions on the relationship between the first evangelization of Latin America and the indigenous cultures: a) the Gospel fertilized perfectly and from the beginning in the indigenous cultures (triumphalist thesis); b) the Gospel was an instrument of European domination, an imposition that ancestral religiosity was unable to subdue (resistance thesis, reflected in some authors of Indian theology); c) Latin America is a mestizo continent whose population is predominantly Catholic, the result of a slow process of evangelization, with phenomena of syncretism that were, little by little, concentrating in marginal areas (thesis of nuanced realism).