Actions as the Ties That Bind Love, Praxis, and Community in the Thought of Gustavo Gutierrez

Dados Bibliográficos

ID14760662
AutoresThomas A Lewis (0000-0003-2116-3792, autor correspondente)
Ano2005
Volume33
Fascículo3
Páginas539-567
Data de publicação2005-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Religious Ethics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0384-9694 • E-ISSN: 1467-9795
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-9795.2005.00233.x
OpenAlexW2008721122
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas12

Gustavo Gutiérrez develops an account of human action or praxis that I—borrowing the language of Charles Taylor—label expressivist. Human action must be understood as expressing an underlying potential or impulse that only becomes real through expression in action. Gutiérrez's expressivism is fundamental to his view of the relationship between faith and love, his notion of three dimensions of liberation/salvation, and his understanding of the fundamental option as a yes or no in response to grace. Moreover, it supports a valuable approach to community as defined more by shared actions than a shared tradition or narrative. The final section briefly indicates two limitations to Gutiérrez's vision—especially with regard to the conception of community—and suggests the direction that a constructive appropriation of his thought might take

Action (physics · Appropriation · Communitarianism · Constructive · Epistemology · Expressivism · Faith · Gratitude · Heteronomy · Liberalism · Linguistics · Narrative · Political science · Praxis · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious and Theological Studies · Social Psychology