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Prophetic Dialogue: A Historical Perspective Bending Time in History to Rediscover the Gospel
Abstract
Prophetic dialogue becomes a historical and theological rubric that breaks down the modern categories of past, present, and future when interpreting Christian history. Prophetic dialogue suggests an eschatological hermeneutic where past is replaced by memory, present by experience, and future by expectation. Hence, history, from a Christian perspective, is a continuum; history is connected. The author provides examples that illustrate the missiological implications of interpreting history with the rubric of prophetic dialogue and the way in which memory, experience, and expectation transform history into a living witness and an opportunity to rediscover the Gospel anew.
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In 1566, after several decades of intense and exhausting endeavors to influence and shape the policy of the Spanish state and church regarding the Americas, years of drafting countless historical texts, theological treatises, colonization projects, prophetic homilies, juridical complaints, political utopias, and apocalyptic visions, Bartolomé de Las Casas knows very well that the end is at hand: the end of his life and the end of his illusions of crafting a just and Christian empire in the New World. It is a moment of searching for the precise closure, the right culmination of a human existence that since 1502 had been intimately linked, as no other person of his time, to the drama of the conquest and Christianization of Latin America, a continent, as has been so aptly asserted, “born in blood and fire.
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