The practice of Comblin: the Church on the ground of reality

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Alzirinha Rocha de Souza

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It is undeniable fact that the speed of the story has hit us as Church agility concerns. Often today, there is a mismatch between the demands that the world makes us and evangelization processes that we have established. However, at different times of the Church, especially of the Latin American Church, there are new initiatives. It is precisely what we want to expose in this article: three concrete actions by Joseph Comblin, who noticed that without understanding the reality and the immediate needs of the poor, it would not be possible to perform an effective evangelization project. The exhibition in more detail on the Experience of the hoe, focused on rural formation of seminarians, the experience of the CEBs (Basic Ecclesial Communities) and missionary training Schools, dedicated to formation of lay missionaries, devised by Comblin and his team: these are three examples of new processes, serving different audiences, seeking to supply the absence of evangelized agents in the vast territory of the wild Northeast.

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SOUZA, Alzirinha Rocha de. The practice of Comblin: the Church on the ground of reality. HORIZONTE - Journal of Studies in Theology and Religious Sciences, Belo Horizonte, v. 15, n. 45, p. 239–255, 2017. DOI: 10.5752/P.2175-5841.2017v15n45p239-255. Disponível em: https://periodicos.pucminas.br/horizonte/article/view/P.2175-5841.2017v15n45p239. Acesso em: 22 oct. 2025.
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Alzirinha Rocha de Souza, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo PUCSP

Doutora em Teologia - Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Bélgica. Departamento de Teologia Prática, sob orientação do Prof. Dr. Henri Derroitte, com Tema de Tese : "A desconexão de sentido entre a Esperança e a ação cristã, a partir da obra de José Comblin", com previsão de término em Set 2014.Defendeu dissertação de Mestrado na Universidade San Dámaso - Madrid, em 2009, sob orientação do Prof. Dr. Geraldo Del Pozo Albejon, Departamento de Teologia Sistemática (Núceo Escatologia) Tema de Tese: "A morte do Homem, de Cristo e do Cristão na obra de Juan Luiz Ruiz de la Peña". Possui graduação em Teologia realizada na Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (Pontifícia Faculdade de Teologia Nossa Senhora d'Assunção), término em 2007. Participa no Grupo de Pesquisa "Ville et Religion", Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Coordenação Prof. Dr. Walter Lesch, que trata de temas ligados a comprensão do exercicio do dado religioso em contexto urbano em tanto que construção do sujeito. É membro da Sociedade Internacional de Teologia Prática - SITP. Pesquisadora da PUCSP - Pós-Doutorado e Professora no ITESP/SP .