Fé e compromisso cristão na América Latina: pistas para ação sócio-transformadora.

Abstract

The research's objective is to analyze the political character of faith, in the evangelizing action, as a transforming social element, based on the principles of the Church's Social Teaching. Through these, we offer answers to the various challenges – political, economic, social, environmental and religious - that are presented to human and Christian life, regarding to the construction of a better world for the very edification of the human being. The perspective that permeates this work lies in the person of the Christian believer, possessing two dimensions, faith and politics, as critiques of each other, and at the same time, when articulated, offer the transforming witness that the common good is possible. The practical attitude of the believer finds support in the teachings and attitudes of his Master, Jesus of Nazareth. His teachings are brought to man through evangelization which becomes his own way of learning and conversion to an attitude of renewing faith in life in its most varied instances.