Las huellas ocultas : la Teología de la prosperidad en América Latina a la luz de sus orígenes ideológicos en el movimiento del Nuevo pensamiento
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2019-03-08
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Quesada Chaves, Marco Antonio
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Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica
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En las últimas tres décadas, agrupaciones cristianas han logrado proyectarse e ins-talarse de manera paulatina en las estructuras políticas de varios países de Améri-ca Latina, logrando ocupar diversas instancias gubernamentales para así impulsar sus propias agendas. Ante dicho fenómeno, resulta importante abordar de manera crítica e investigativa el discurso teológico que impulsan muchas de estos grupos y partidos políticos, el cual se conoce como la Teología de la prosperidad. En el presente artículo se realiza un sondeo histórico para rastrear lo que son sus orígenes ideológicos, los cuales tienen como una de sus principales fuentes el movimiento filosófico y espiritual del Nuevo pensamiento, surgido a mediados del siglo XIX en los Estados Unidos. De esta forma, se abre un cuestionamiento sobre si la Teología de la prosperidad es realmente una teología, al discutir y contrastar sus principales consignas desde una perspectiva histórica, teológica y crítica.
In the last three decades, Christian groupings have managed to project and install themselves gradually in the political structures of several Latin Amer-ican countries, managing to occupy diverse governmental instances in order to promote their own agendas. Given this phenomenon, it is important to critically and investigatively address the theological discourse that many of these congregations and political parties promote, which is known as the Prosperity Gospel. In the present article, a historical survey is carried out to trace what its ideological origins are, one of its main sources being the philosophical and spiritual movement of the New Thought, which emerged in the mid-nineteenth century in the United States. In this way, a question arises about whether the Prosperity Gospel is really theology, by discussing and contrasting its main slogans from a theological and critical perspective.
In the last three decades, Christian groupings have managed to project and install themselves gradually in the political structures of several Latin Amer-ican countries, managing to occupy diverse governmental instances in order to promote their own agendas. Given this phenomenon, it is important to critically and investigatively address the theological discourse that many of these congregations and political parties promote, which is known as the Prosperity Gospel. In the present article, a historical survey is carried out to trace what its ideological origins are, one of its main sources being the philosophical and spiritual movement of the New Thought, which emerged in the mid-nineteenth century in the United States. In this way, a question arises about whether the Prosperity Gospel is really theology, by discussing and contrasting its main slogans from a theological and critical perspective.
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TEOLOGIA, IDEOLOGÍAS, AMERICA LATINA, ASPECTOS POLÍTICOS, THEOLOGY, IDEOLOGIES, POLITICAL ASPECTS