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Culture and Evangelism: a Latino Perspective on the Lutheran José D. Rodríguez Chicago, 2001 Cullture and Evangelliism: A Latiino Perspectiive on the Lutheran Miissiion iin Puerto Riico José Rodriiguez Professor of Systematiic Theollogy Augustana Heriitage Chaiir of Glloball Miissiion and Worlld Chriistiianiity Lutheran Schooll of Theollogy at Chiicago Introduction In 1998 the Hispanic/Latino Ministry Program of the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (LSTC) began the Evaristo Falcó-Esteves lecture series. This lecture series was established as an initiative for the pastoral and theological reflection of lay, clergy, seminarians, seminary, college and university professors interested in the Lutheran legacy and its relevance in responding to the challenges of today’s world, from a Hispanic/Latin American perspective. Tonight, in my inaugural lecture as professor of systematic theology, and in my roll as director of LSTC’s Hispanic/Latino Ministry Program, I want to continue these efforts with a reflection on the topic of theology and culture. My goal is to join the endeavors of those whose concern for a better understanding of the relationship between history, culture and human spirituality, engage in exploring the role of the Gospel as a transforming and liberating element of the human predicament. My focus tonight will be on the relationship between culture and evangelism in the expansion of Lutheranism in the island of Puerto Rico. Rationale for this Study The rational for this study is very personal. It has to do with my cultural and religious identity. I have always been intrigued with the fact that when I am away from my country of origin, and this is especially true of my experience in the United States, people perceive a significant conflict between my Puerto Rican and Lutheran identity. Those familiar with the 16th century European conquest of these lands know that Puerto Rico was included in the Spanish conquest of that time and consequently, subjected to its Roman Catholic missionary venture. Given this fact, how can a Puerto Rican claim to be Lutheran? The answer lies in another significant fact of our historical development that is mostly neglected. Puerto Rico, along with most other people constitutive of the cultures indigenous to these lands, was subjected to a second major European conquest that led to the Anglo/Saxon Protestant missionary expansion in this part of the world. The full consequences of these two great events are still being explored. To be sure, the significance of the Lutheran experience in the Protestant expansion to the island of Puerto Rico has not been yet adequately studied. Tonight I want to contribute to this research by exploring the expansion of Lutheranism in Puerto Rico from a Hispanic/Latino perspective. Methodological Assumptions 1 José D. Rodríguez Chicago, 2001 My approach to this subject will follow the one characteristic of the emerging Latino theological perspective in the United States. By this I mean the one developed by an increasing number of Latino men and women who, along with other sectors of our society and people around the world that have been silent for generations, are now speaking up and claiming an authority that past centuries have denied them. 1 From its inception, Latino theology became the effort to reflect on the implications of correlating faith with the social, cultural and religious history of our people. Nurtured by the insights of Latin American theology and other liberation perspectives, it applies the hermeneutics of suspicion to our peoples’ experience. This effort leads to focus on the popular expression of our people’s faith and knowledge as a vehicle and witness of divine revelation. 2 While this initiative aims at recovering those foundational elements that give meaning to our identity as a people, it also provides a focus on those basic dimensions of the church’s teachings that make possible a continuous renewal of our understanding and confession of the Gospel. Reading in Spanish as a Key for Interpretation My analysis of the Lutheran missionary expansion to Puerto Rico will use as the central key for interpretation what Justo L. González’ established as a reading in Spanish of the history and teachings of the Christian tradition. To clarify this approach González argues for a reading of the Bible in Spanish. His proposal is not a chauvinistic appeal for Latinos to give up biblical research based on the historical-critical method. Nor does he emphasize using just a Spanish translation of the text. His point is to recover a central feature in the Protestant tradition of making the Bible available to the people in their vernacular. For González, the emphasis of this approach–in contrasts to the one characteristic of the dominant culture–, is to read the Scriptures as presenting a history of the people of God beyond innocence, that is, to view biblical history as responsible remembrance, leading to responsible action. Such an approach provides an interpretation of the Bible compatible with our own history, riddled with ambiguity, joys and failures. When the Bible turns into a resource accessible to the people, and the people discover in the Bible their own particular perspective, then the Bible becomes the people’s book, a subversive book no longer under the control of the dominant groups in society. 3 Vitor Westhelle, a fellow professor of systematic theology at LSTC contends that one of Luther’s most significant contributions was providing a language to give voice to the voiceless of his time. The reformer’s importance for the normative nature of the German language is generally recognized. Yet, his contributions in providing a means of communication capable of constituting knowledge for empowering the aspirations and desires of the common people in 16th century European society, has received very little attention. 4 My study intends to provide an example of the significant impact of this 1 Justo L. González, Mañana: Christian Theology from a Hispanic Perspective (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1990), 47-8. 2 To be sure, for Latino theology popular religion becomes first and foremost an epistemology, that is, a way of imagining reality and constructing knowledge. It is a bearer of culture and identity. It is also a receiver and witness of our peoples’ understanding and practice of God’s self-revelation. 3 González, Mañana, 75-87. 4 Vitor Westhelle, “Looking People in the Mouth: Luther, Language, and Oppression” (Soon to be published). Also from the same author, Voces de protesta en América Latina (México: Hispanic/Latino 2 José D. Rodríguez Chicago, 2001 contribution of Luther, re-appropriated by the Latino perspective, for a better understanding of the relationship between culture and religion in communicating and witnessing to the transforming power of the Gospel. Popular Religion: The Vernacular of the People in the Margins In his ground-breaking study of Popular Catholicism Orlando O. Espín argues that for Latino theologians, the importance of the study of popular Christianity is its role as a source for a theological discourse rendered Latinamente5. For him and for an increasing number of Latinos/as from Roman Catholic and Protestant backgrounds, popular Christianity is not just a collection of beliefs or practices, regardless its exotic, curious or orthodox nature by our denominational standards. Popular Christianity is first and foremost, an epistemology: a way of imagining reality and of constructing knowledge. It is a bearer of culture and identity. It is an instrument for listening and witnessing to divine revelation in culturally authentic and specific ways, which, among Latinos/as (as among all peoples) bear the impact of both grace and sin. 6 Yet, to avoid a naive perception of this means of expression, Espín alerts us to the fact that the rites, beliefs and symbols commonly associated with popular Christianity, rather than ends in themselves, need to be discerned as playing the important mediating role of vehicles to a better understanding of the faith of our people in their daily struggles for life. Alejandro García-Rivera–alumni of our advanced program in theological studies at LSTC and presently Associate Professor of systematic theology at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley–, produced a creative study on the power of the religious imagination and profound wisdom of popular Christianity by examining the devotion to San Martín de Porres of marginalized sectors of society. His careful and critical semiotic study of the “little stories” of San Martín de Porres, provides a creative contribution to the wider discussion of culture in a wide variety of contexts, and the role of human agency in confronting the power of the dominant sectors of society. 7 Ministry Program at LSTC, 2000). Another valuable study exploring the impact of Luther’s understanding of the vernacular for the transmission of ideas in the Lutheran Reformation is Helga Robinson- Hammerstein, “The Lutheran Reformation and its music,” in The Transmission of Ideas in the Lutheran Reformation. Helga Ribinson-Hammerstein, editor, (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1989), 141-71. 5 Orlando O. Espín, The Faith of the People: Theological Reflections on Popular Catholicism (New York: Orbis Books, 1997). 6 Espín, “The State of U.S. Latino/a Theology,” 34-5. “The rites, believes and symbols commonly associated with popular Christianity are not, in and of themselves, what is important in this religious universe: rather, they are like doors through which we may sense the faith of our people and their daily struggles for life. Because of this, some Latino/a theologians have argued that popular Christianity is a source for an authentically Latino/a theology.”Ibid., 35. 7 In his introduction to the publication of García-Rivera, Robert Schriter describes the author’s contribution to current research in postcolonial studies: “In contemporary postcolonial writing, formerly subjugated peoples are trying to reconstruct their identities, not simply by imagining a precolonial past, but by coming to terms with the many strands of culture in which they participate.
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