Ten Years of Change in the Church

Puebla and the Future

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4789428
AutoresAlexander Wilde (0000-0003-1583-3833, Smithsonian Institution, autor de correspondencia)
Año1979
Volumen21
Número3
Páginas299-312
Fecha de publicación1979-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-1937 • E-ISSN: 2162-2736
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/165726
OpenAlexW2783465222
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas8

The Puebla meeting of the Latin American bishops in early 1979 capped a decade of far-reaching and surprising change in the Catholic Church. A new, local-level unit-the "ecclesial base community" or CEB-has given Catholicism a vitality in society it has not known for centuries. At the same time, the Church has achieved an unprecedented integration as an institution nationally and regionally, in Latin America as a whole. It has found itself, through an unexpected historical dynamic, increasingly committed to the cause of the poor in deed as well as word, And it has been thrust into political confrontations with state authority throughout the region with an intensity and scope unmatched since the nineteenth century

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