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This Thursday, January 24 at 7:30 p.m., in the Assembly Hall of the Higher Technical School of Agronomic Engineering (ETSIA, Paseo Alfonso XIII), Liberation Theologian Juan José Tamayo and a very critical person with the immobilism of the Catholic Church, will be in Cartagena invited by the Association of Historical Memory of Cartagena and Cartagena Piensa.

In a talk that he himself has entitled THE SPANISH CATHOLIC CHURCH: FROM THE DICTATORSHIP TO DEMOCRACY, he will share with his personal perspective the changes experienced by the Catholic Church from the years of the dictatorship of the last century until reaching the current democracy.

In the words of Tamayo (El País, July 11, 2018),), in an article entitled "The Religious Transition," considers that changes are necessary in the current relationship between the Spanish State and the Catholic Church. to review in depth the Organic Law of Religious Freedom, of 1980, which responds to a socio-religious situation overcome.

It is necessary to suppress the teaching of confessional religion in schools and introduce a subject of the history of religions, which analyzes the religious phenomenon in a scientific way ... '

Militant of Liberation Theology considers that '... the Theology of Liberation is not a theology enclosed in the sacristy with the smell of incense, but a street theology, sensitive to the real problems of the people, especially the sectors most vulnerable in society.

It is a plural theology that unfolds in different tendencies, all of them complementary: feminist, indigenous, afro-descendant, ecological, peasant, economic, interreligious, intercultural, religious pluralism theology ... ¨

JUAN JOSÉ TAMAYO

Juan José Tamayo holds a PhD in Theology from the Pontifical University of Salamanca (1976) and a PhD in Philosophy from the Autonomous University of Madrid (1990).

Theologian of Liberation, is director of the Chair of Theology and Religious Sciences "Ignacio Ellacuría", of the Carlos III University of Madrid and professor emeritus in the Department of Social Analysis of the same University since September 1, 2017. He is co-founder, member of the Scientific Committee and researcher of the University Institute of Gender Studies of the Carlos III University of Madrid, researcher of the Institute of Historiography "Julio Caro Baroja" of the same University and the Institute "DEMOSPAZ" of the Autonomous University from Madrid.

Juan José Tamayo will be presented by Josefina Pérez García, member of the Association of Historical Memory of Cartagena.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena