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Jun 08, 1928 Lima, Peru 95 years old
Peruvian theologian
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About Gustavo Gutiérrez
- Gustavo Gutiérrez Merino (born 8 June 1928) is a Peruvian philosopher, theologian, and Dominican priest regarded as one of the founders of liberation theology.
- He currently holds the John Cardinal O'Hara Professorship of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, and has previously been a professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and a visiting professor at many major universities in North America and Europe.He studied medicine and literature at the National University of San Marcos, where he also became involved with Catholic Action, which greatly influenced his theological arguments.
- At the Theology Faculty of Lueven in Belgium and Lyon, France, he began studying theology.
- He has taught at the University of Michigan, Harvard, Cambridge, Berkeley, University of Montreal, among other schools.
- His theological focus aimed to connect salvation and liberation through the preferential option for the poor, or the emphasis on improving the material conditions of the impoverished.
- Through this school of thought, Gutierrez proposes two questions.
- (1) “Do two parallel orders exist - that is to say, an autonomous and secular ending to humanity and a supernatural revelation - of such a matter that mankind will move into the two areas of knowledge and life that are completely separate from one another? Or, is humanity, in deep unity with itself, called by God to build itself and society up religiously and ethically.” (2) “How do we convey to the poor that God loves them?” In this way, his methodology is often critical of the social and economic injustice he believes to be responsible for poverty in Latin America and the clergy within the Catholic Church.
- In 1974, Gutiérrez founded the Lima branch of the Bartolemé de Las Casas Institute.
- The Institute, in its mission statement, aims to use theology as a means of addressing contemporary social issues and educating through research, engagement with lawmakers, and collaboration with grassroots organizations.
- Gutiérrez is a member of the Peruvian Academy of Language.
- In 1993, he was awarded the Legion of Honor by the French government for his tireless work.
- In 2002 Gutiérrez was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2003 he received the Príncipe de Asturias award.
- In 2016, he received the Pacem in Terris Award from St.
- Ambrose University.
