The article analyzes how social care was developed for various poor sectors in Costa Rica. Through the review of laws, decrees and official circulars, it is shown that the State practiced different protection measures through the early institutionalization of charity, the partial or total exoneration of certain charges, the distribution of land and...
The article addresses the intrinsic relationship between salvation and liberation in the thought of the theologian Leonardo Boff. Any expert of Liberation Theology will know that it is not in characteristic of Boff to relate salvation with liberation but it is the proper characteristic of Latin American theology of liberation. We focus on one of th...
The poor are all those people, who Jesus Christ incarnated or they are all thosepeople who, on their faces, the very same face of that suffering Christ can bevisualized, and who are persecuted because of the demand of human andChristian values. Among these, there are concrete people, concrete groups, whosuffer the consequences of that institutional...
The social hunch around the election of a Latin American Pope, Francisco, has been materialized not only in the traditional communications of a pontiff but fundamentally in the encounter with men and women of different places and beliefs whose common point is the social struggle for another world. This meeting traces an ecclesial and epistemic rout...
El presente documento, tiene como finalidad presentar una breve descripción de las categorías Teología de la Liberación y Pedagogía del Oprimido, ambas entendidas como corrientes surgidas en los contextos de América Latina, donde la primera se caracteriza por surgir de la teología a partir de una nueva lectura del evangelio y aproximación crítica d...
Subsequent pages collected, with historical perspective, refl ections on the poor and poverty, begging and charity which, prepared by great minds of the rich tradition of Hispanic thought, advocate, warn and anticipate the wider issues that, once societies altered by the effects of economic and political revolutions, found ample space in social sci...
El microcrédito ha sido utilizado para aliviar el desempleo en la sociedad, considerado como fuente de obtención de dinero sin muchos requisitos, por lo cual la investigación, desarrollada con información de la ciudad de Ambato, buscó cuantiicar cómo beneicia el microcrédito al autoempleo, y así determinar cuáles son sus posibles usos. El análisis ...
Este artigo trata das estratégias da Junta Provisória do Governo do Espírito Santo para promover a ocupação, ordenação e desenvolvimento da província nos anos de 1822 e 1823. Para sanar demandas que havia séculos grassavam na região, a junta mobilizou a elite e os segmentos por ela chamados de gente pobre. Essa mobilização expandiu os vínculos já e...
The Book of Job has frequently been described and esteemed as one of the most important literary prototypes in the Old Testament. It is devoted to reflection on a just person’s sufferings. However, as the book moves on into the poetic dialogues between Job and his friends (3,1- 42,6), the reader perceives that Job the protagonist becomes a highly r...
