Carlos Mendoza Álvarez

En tiempos signados por la incertidumbre, el horror y la violencia global, este diálogo a cuatro manos nos invita a dejarnos mover (discernimiento) y ser movides (espiritualidad) por la Ruah divina en amistad, en mutualidad, recibiendo en nuestras propias heridas, muchas veces ocultas, las historias heridas de quienes confiesan valiente- mente sus más profundas rebeliones y aspiraciones desde los márgenes invisibles y descartados por el poder. En este libro a cuatro manos –que recoge el diálogo epistolar entre Juan Carlos La Puente-Tapia y Carlos Mendoza-Álvarez en conversación con las ilustraciones de Paulo Medina y prologado por Carmenmargarita Sánchez de León– los autores nos invitan a acuerparnos en mutuo acompañamiento porque nuestros cuerpos, como si fueran cajas ancestrales de resonancia, abrigan infinitud de sabias transgresiones que vuelven a resistir y re-existir creativamente con la Madre Tierra sin sucumbir a las promesas y violencias de los poderes hegemónicos. Juan Carlos La Puente-Tapia acompaña personas y colectivos para que sus acciones a favor de la justicia y la paz se arraiguen en un quehacer espiritual, teológico y ritual en mutuo acompañamiento. Carlos Mendoza-Álvarez es un teólogo dominico mexicano. Tejiendo pensamiento crítico y espiritualidad, acompaña a sobrevivientes de diversas violencias en digna y esperanzada resistencia. Este libro inspirará una nueva generación de practicantes de la espiritualidad, invitados a realizar largos viajes a las muchas matrias de la humanidad para aprender de nuevo a hacerse amigos de la tierra y sus creaturas. –Susan Abraham, President, Concilium, An International Journal of Theology Atisbos de una nueva pneumatología: entrevemos cómo el Espíritu produce un renacimiento, poseyéndonos a partir de los intersticios, y llevándonos a modos de presencia y posibilidades de donación aun no vislumbrados. Alimentación rica para una santa y ‘acuerpada’ imaginación. –James Alison, Presidente del Comité de educación, Imitatio

The Resurrection as a Messianic Anticipation signals the road ahead for political and liberation theologies. We can and must place our hope in the resurrection even as the world around us continues to collapse, as the specter of global violence escalates, and as the body counts mount. This prescient, scholarly work faces directly the horrors of our time and uncovers a credible theological response among the survivors. It is a must-read. – Nancy Pineda-Madrid, Loyola Marymount University This powerful book calls us to rise up against death and senseless violence. It reclaims resurrection as a communal praxis of indomitable life. It cries out with the victims of history and remembers their radiant hopes of ecstatic transformation. It is revolutionary in the best sense of the word. – Andrew Prevot, author of The Mysticism of Ordinary Life: Theology, Philosophy and Feminism The first part of a trilogy on the idea of tradition, The Resurrection as a Messianic Anticipation proposes a theology of new life from a postmodern and decolonial perspective. This investigation of the resurrection’s foundational event starts from the analysis of intersubjectivity in our times of extreme violence, based on the creative imagination deployed by the systemic victims. From this existential background, the author offers a creative reading of the Christian faith in the full life of the Crucified One Awoke dialoguing with the reason that arises from the social, cultural, and spiritual resistances that dismantle the violence produced by patriarchy, colonialism, and capitalism colluded with sacrificial religion. It will be followed by two volumes on the theology of tradition thought as a symbolic resistance and as a political sacramentality of the new world born from the reverse side of hegemonic history where it is possible to listen to the murmur of God thanks to the persons and communities that live the messianic times as a living tradition in constant transformation containing an ethical, political and spiritual task for all humanity. Carlos Mendoza-Álvarez OP is a Mexican theologian. He holds a doctorate in Fundamental Theology from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, where he also obtained his habilitation. His work proposes a Fundamental Theology where the Phenomenology of Subjectivity, Mimetic Theory, and Decolonial Thought converge in dialogue with Social Movements from the Global South. He is a full professor in the Theology Department at Boston College. He has published eight monographs, thirty chapters in collective works, and sixty articles in scientific journals. His books include a trilogy on the idea of revelation: Deus Liberans (Fribourg, 1996), Deus absconditus (Paris, 2011), and Deus ineffabilis (Barcelona, 2015).