Un Análisis Teológico del Sufrimiento Inocente Frente al Acontecer de Dios en la Historia Humana para el Contexto Colombiano

Abstract

In the context of the armed conflict in Colombia and in the face of the countless victims that the war has caused, the question about God's action in the face of the suffering of the innocent is necessary. Theology as a science that explains and systematizes Revelation has the duty to propose a reflection that responds to the paradox of Divine events in the midst of painful realities. Likewise, it outlines a path to combat and free man from unjust suffering in specific contexts. The experience of the people of Israel communicated in paradigmatic texts of Scripture shows that suffering is a situation contrary to God's plans for man. In the person of Christ, we find the supreme and radical model of struggle against the suffering of the human person. Contemporary theology points out an interpretive path that allows us to analyze the historical, existential and theological consequences of suffering in the life of the sufferer and the way through which God is associated with the pain of the innocent. Consequently, liberation theology allows us to examine the issue from contexts and suffering realities close to the majority of Latin Americans. In short, it is understood that the mechanisms of theological reflection in the context of the post-agreement in Colombia must have as their starting point the active participation of the victims, since the suffering suffered gives them authority to remember, narrate and propose a new liberated history of suffering for the entire country.