THE CONCEPT OF READING THE WORLD BY PAULO FREIRE AS A POSSIBILITY OF A THEOLOGY OF THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES

Abstract

The Vatican Council II promoted a theological renewal in perspective of the insight of the signs of times from the reading of the history and the culture recognizing in it the action of God. Such insight of ecclesial experience was received creatively by the Latin American Church, at the Bishops General Conference in Medellin in 1968. The Latin American church learned to recognize the action of God in history and in the context of his people and cultures. In this perspective, our proposal seeks for a dialog between the pedagogy and the theology based on Paulo Freire’s work, which coined the category of “Reading the World”. Based on this category, it is intended to consider a theology of the insight of the signs of the times based on the “reading the world” by Paulo Freire as a possibility of a creative and theological re-interpretation of the tenets written by the Brazilian pedagogue.