Profile: Ernesto Cardenal

Cardenal, Ernesto; Pring-Mill, R. D. F.

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“…While Gustavo Gutiérrez's classic A Theology of Liberation (1969) was published within a year of James Cone's A Black Theology of Liberation (1970), a significant number of biblical critics focused on biblical themes rather than the more theological focus of Guttierez and others (see Ellacuria and Sobrino 1994). Here we find biblical critics such as Pixley (1987), Miranda (1974;1982), Croatto (1981), Cardenal (1979) and Tamez (1982).…”

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Twenty-five Years of Marxist Biblical Criticism

Boer

2007

Currents in Biblical Research

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In the context of a renewed interest in Marxism outside biblical studies, this article surveys and critiques the background and current status of a similar renewal in biblical studies. It begins with a consideration of the background of current studies in liberation, materialist and political theologies, and moves on to note the division between literary and social scientific uses of Marxist theories. While those who used Marxist literary methods were initially inspired by Terry Eagleton and Fredric Jameson, more recent work has begun to make use of a whole tradition of Marxist literary criticism largely ignored in biblical studies. More consistent work, however, has taken place in the social sciences in both Hebrew Bible and New Testament studies. In Hebrew Bible studies, debates focus on the question of mode of production, especially the domestic or household mode of production, while in New Testament studies, the concerns have been with reconstructing the context of the Jesus movement and, more recently, the Pauline correspondence. I close with a number of questions concerning the division into different areas of what is really a holistic approach to texts and history.

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Section: Background: Liberation Political and Materialist Exegesismentioning

confidence: 80%

Twenty-five Years of Marxist Biblical Criticism

Boer

2007

Currents in Biblical Research

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Attempts to Build a Grassroots Church in Nicaragua

Williams¹

1989

The Catholic Church and Politics in Nicaragua and Costa Rica

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Religion and Revolutionary We‐Ness: Religious Discourse, Speech Acts, and Collective Identity in Prerevolutionary Nicaragua

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Pitcher²

2015

Scientific Study of Religion

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Building on language as action perspectives and recent social movement research on speech acts, we explore the role religious discourse plays in the maintenance of a collective identity we call revolutionary “we‐ness.” Using NVivo qualitative data analysis software we perform a content analysis of Volume 1 of The Gospel in Solentiname (Cardenal 1976), a historical record of Biblestudy discussions in prerevolutionary Nicaragua. Based on a framework of collective identity construction (boundary work, oppositional consciousness, identity assertion) into which a taxonomy of speech acts (accusations, declarations, directives, exhortations, prescriptions, and warnings) are organized, our content analysis illustrates how revolutionary we‐ness is constituted, and how the recursive employment of speech acts suggests a resonance of ideological motives in religious discourse. We found the degree to which identity assertion, expressed in declarative speech acts, predominated over oppositional consciousness, which in turn figured over boundary work in the constitution of revolutionary we‐ness. Our speech acts approach fills a void in framing theory and confirms religious discourse's capacity to promote radical self‐understandings and commitment to revolutionary activism.

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Profile: Ernesto Cardenal

Cited by 4 publications

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Twenty-five Years of Marxist Biblical Criticism

Twenty-five Years of Marxist Biblical Criticism

Attempts to Build a Grassroots Church in Nicaragua

Religion and Revolutionary We‐Ness: Religious Discourse, Speech Acts, and Collective Identity in Prerevolutionary Nicaragua

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