La dignidad humana en la Gaudium et Spes, las conferencias de santo domingo y aparecida: hacia unas líneas de acción pastoral para ESUNA

Abstract

Human dignity is one of the major concerns of the Church since the Second Vatican Council, especially by the anthropological turning point that is given on the basis of this ecclesial event. That concern for human dignity, is emphasized much more in the proposals of the bishops of Latin America that have wanted to give continuity to the orientations of the Conciliar documents in response to the pastoral challenges that arise in the social conditions of their peoples. In the present work, we analyze the prospects on the dignity of three documents of the magisterium of the Church: The Gaudium et Spes, which raises the budgets of Christian anthropology in the context of a modern world; The Santo Domingo Bishop´s Conference, which assumes the human promotion as a dimension of the New Evangelization; and the bishop´s Conference in Aparecida, which highlights the preferential option for the poor as a way of building the God´s Kingdom. From this analysis arises the proposal of a few lines of the pastoral action to ESUNA: unity of the Augustinian University to the spiritual strengthening at the educational institution. These lines of action relating to human dignity, are produced from the transversal axes of the documents: personal dimension, community dimension, the centrality of Christ and the God´s presence; and are intended to provide guidelines, from the study of theology, to illuminate the criteria of a university ministry project.