Theology and the Life of the Poor

Abstract

This chapter addresses a difficult challenge: to give an account of one's theological path, showing the connection between our human trajectory and theological work. Giving an account of this path has to do with memory. And, in my opinion, theology also has very much to do with memory. It is in the name of the memory of the biblical people and the women and men who followed Jesus that we practice our theology. Memory is not a simple recounting of the facts, but always a reinterpretation and reorganization of the facts of the past from the perspective of the present in which we are living. It is always a creative exercise, yet, at the same time, we try to be faithful to the past.