From the Editor

From the Editor:

 

At the 2008 Convention of the Catholic Theological Society of America, the Hispanic / Latino/a Theology Consultation focused its attention on the theme of “Methods in Latino/a Theologies: Re-imagining Lo Cotidiano,” revisiting the discussion of sources and methods for Latino/a theologies first raised some twenty years ago by Orlando Espín and Sixto J. García. In his contribution to this discussion, Giberto Cavazos-González, OFM, Professor of Spirituality at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, focuses our attention on “La cotidianidad divina: a Latin@ Method for Spirituality,” as he describes the socio-spiritual method that opens the door to his study of Sts. Francis and Clare. In her contribution, systematic theologian Cecilia González-Andrieu of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, offers Theological Aesthetics and the Recovery of Silenced Voices,” which captures important political dimensions of theological aesthetics. Finally, in dialogue with Cavazos-González and González-Andrieu, ACHTUS Past-President Sixto J. García of St. Vincent De Paul Regional Seminary in Boynton Beach, Florida sheds new light on method in Latino/a theologies by reflecting on what he regards as four defining categories: passion, awe and wonder, personalism and philosophy. By presenting revised versions of these insightful studies in this electronic Journal of Hispanic / Latino Theology, we hope to spark further discussion of the distinctiveness of Latino/a theologies.