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Latin America Interpretation of Dealing with Violence and Repression
( 1 ) In the CBCs, poor people come together to worship God and listen to God’s word where they live their daily lives. There they experience the presence and power of God as they struggle with their most immediate problems and sufferings: how to get enough food to eat; how to deal with drunkenness or the abuse of women and children in the family; how to
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improve the health of their children; how to deal with violence and repression.
These weekly meetings usually begin with conversation about what has been happening in the people’s lives, then move to Bible study and prayer, and end with decisions about actions to be taken in response to God’s call. The study of the Bible occupies the central place as the poor discover that, through it, God addresses their concrete situation. In the words of a leader of a CBC in Sao Paulo, Brazil, “a base ecclesial community is a group of people who reflect on the Word of God as a family. They discover together the needs of their street, their neighborhood, and their people, and use the Word of God as a mirror in which to see their situation.”
As the poor get a new sense of their worth before God and thus forge a new self-identity, they experience God’s grace and transforming power as real and concrete. Their family life is transformed, and those who have practically nothing learn both to share the little they have and to work together to analyze and solve some of their most urgent problems. Living in such closeness to God, they look to the future with hope, find peace and even joy in the midst of their sufferings, often undertake impossible tasks, and face persecution and threats of death without fear.
(2) As the poor have been encouraged not only to read and study the Bible together but also to value and draw on their own religious language and beliefs, they are learning to articulate their own faith and speak their own word. In reading the Bible without someone else telling them what it says, the poor discover that the people figuring in the biblical story are people like themselves: poor and oppressed women, fisherpersons and peasants, people living in exile, lepers and other outcasts. The poor come to see that the biblical story is their story and that the struggle described there is their struggle. And before long, they realize that they can understand its message, articulate it in language that makes sense to them, and hence draw on it in their daily life as they never dreamed of doing before.
Moreover, as poor and marginal people demonstrate their capacity to understand and articulate the biblical message, those helping them are compelled to pay much more attention to the religious ideas, symbols, and festivals of the people. These helpers soon realize that this popular religion, while it may contain a great deal of superstition and elements taken from non-Christian sources, nevertheless expresses a vital faith and enables many people to organize their lives and find meaning in their suffering.
These helpers of the poor furthermore perceive that when they respect the faith and culture of the people and assist them in establishing a direct dialogue between their faith heritage and the Bible, the biblical story enriches and transforms their symbolic world. This, in turn, sets in motion a creative process by means of which the people are able to build on what they already have, rework it in the light of biblical faith, and gain increasing
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struggles, they frequently get so caught u p in these struggles that they have little time for or interest in deepening their faith or evangelizing others. Yet, as the sufferings of the poorest people increase and their situation becomes more desperate, they sense a greater need for a rich and rewarding religious experience that will offer them comfort and peace and have the power to reorient and reorganize their lives at the very time that all around them is disintegrating. If they do not find this spiritual satisfaction in the CBCs, they will search for it elsewhere.
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Methodology 58-53 points Content is well-organized with headings for each slide and bulleted lists to group related material as needed. Use of font, color, graphics, effects, etc. to enhance readability and presentation content is excellent. Length requirements of 10 slides/pages or less is met. |
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40-38 points More depth/detail for the background and significance is needed, or the research detail is not clear. No search history information is provided. |
83-76 points Review of relevant theoretical literature is evident, but there is little integration of studies into concepts related to problem. Review is partially focused and organized. Supporting and opposing research are included. Summary of information presented is included. Conclusion may not contain a biblical integration. |
52-49 points Content is somewhat organized, but no structure is apparent. The use of font, color, graphics, effects, etc. is occasionally detracting to the presentation content. Length requirements may not be met. |
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