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Document Details : Title: Theologie van de migratie Subtitle: Een interculturele methodologie Author(s): CASTILLO GUERRA, Jorge E. Journal: Tijdschrift voor Theologie Volume: 47 Issue: 1 Date: 2007 Pages: 42-64 DOI: 10.2143/TVT.47.1.3203515 Abstract : This article describes a methodology for the widely emergent ‘theology of migration’. Thoughts from various quarters and arising from differing circumstances, with as objective focusing on the manner in which God passes through our history, offer building stones for such a theology of migration. The author notes that as project this theology should be developed in greater systematic detail. It has, as yet, no circumscribed conceptual framework, no solid epistemology and no hermeneutics. The increasing attention for the subject shows that time has come to examine the meaning of migration for theology, and to pose the question of the possibility of theological reflection based on the life, faith and reasoning of immigrants. The proposals developed here address first the methodological starting point, which is delineated using definitions of the terms migration and immigrant. After that it is examined how the context of migration can give rise to theological reflection; then immigrant theology is identified as a theology of specific liberations and intercultural theology is regarded from an immigrant perspective. The following steps seek to offer an impulse for an intercultural methodology for the theology of migration. It is inductive and is grounded on access to the world of immigrants. The insights this produces are then analysed from socio-political, intercultural and theological perspectives. The immigrants’ challenges and expressions that arise from the reality of migration, the multicultural society and the need for inter-religious dialogue or the project of coexistence (convivencia) are developed in a systematic theological form. After that, this theology offers arguments for recognising God’s revelation in the present, for contributing to God’s plan for salvation, and for assessing the value of the major contribution of migrants on human and Christian levels. Here this theology becomes relevant for situations where choices are made for migrants and for an intercultural society. This theology will become transformed – ‘interculturalised’ – as it reflects on ‘inter’ places and encourages dialogue on inter-contextual, intercultural, inter-religious and interdisciplinary levels. |
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