A Human Catechism: A Journey from Violence and Collective Woundedness to Peacebuilding
Ebook
A Human Catechism is a theopoetic journey. It is the integration of personal experience, theological reflection, and contextual analysis. This book proposes a radical way of discipleship in which we are invited to run the risk of positively imitating one another through the imitation of Christ. If violence happens through the imitation of one another, maybe good things do too. As the reader embarks on a contextually self-reflective journey, this book invites us to take the chance of believing in a God in whom there is no violence. A Human Catechism will be a journey from what seemed impossible, to what became second nature, all the way to becoming responsible for modeling a way of being otherwise to those around us.
“Here is a pioneering work in applying mimetic theory to the understanding of discipleship in the modern world. A Human Catechism opens up a three-dimensional way of living the gospel with and alongside every different sort of ‘other,’ as well as preparing us for all the traps and forms of blindness we may fall into on the way.”
—James Alison, author of Jesus the Forgiving Victim: Listening for the Unheard Voice
“I have been waiting for a book like this! A book that is theologically and anthropologically robust while not avoiding personal and communal application. Joel Aguilar Ramirez gives his reader a true narrative road map towards an embodied theology and liberative psychology. This book is an invitation towards a way of being human that is located in honesty and curiosity.”
—Ron Ruthruff, associate professor of theology and culture, The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology
“In A Human Catechism, Joel Aguilar Ramirez invites us to a journey of becoming fully human. First he explores the cost of following an angry God waiting at the altar. He then proposes an alternative theological vision of a God with whom there is no violence. This is one of the first works to use Rene Girard’s mimetic theory to read a contemporary and practical context. Highly recommended!”
—Fred Laceda, professor of theology, Penuel School of Theology
- Title: A Human Catechism: A Journey from Violence and Collective Woundedness to Peacebuilding
- Author: Joel David Aguilar Ramirez
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Print Publication Date: 2024
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781666751413, 9781666751390, 1666751391, 9781666751406, 1666751405, 1666751413
- Resource ID: LLS:9781666751413
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-02-01T21:48:27Z
Joel David Aguilar Ramirez has dedicated his adult life to forming incarnational leaders who love their city and seek its peace in Guatemala City. He has a PhD in practical theology from the University of Pretoria in South Africa, a master’s degree in global urban leadership from Bakke Graduate University, and a bachelor’s degree in theology from the Central American Theological Seminary; he is the academic dean at the Community for Interdisciplinary Theological Studies (ceticontinental.org) and a senior fellow and ordained member of the Street Psalms community (streetpsalms.org). He is married to Annette, and they have two daughters.