O MÉTODO VER-JULGAR-AGIR: GENEALOGIA E SUA RELAÇÃO COM A TEOLOGIA DA LIBERTAÇÃO

Abstract

The method Ver-Julgar-Agir emerged as
an attempt by Joseph Cardjin to respond to
the harsh reality in which the workers of his
city, especially the young people, were inserted.
Cardjin noticed that the church is far from the
reality of the workers, so much so that when he
was a seminarian and returned to his parents’
house during the vacation, he realized that,
although he was the same age as his friends, he
felt displaced from that social context. In order to
face this desire, in the mid 1920’s, Priest Cardjin
organized groups of young workers, inspired
by his own methodology. A few decades later,
on the Latin American continent, the desire to
produce a theological reflection less dependent
on European schemes and with the face and
smell of the people on this ground emerged: a
practical theology. Named Liberation Theology,
this system incorporated the method Ver-Julgar-
Agir, transforming itself into an epistemic set.