El despertar de la espiritualidad de la liberación: evolución de sus expresiones desde Medellin hasta Puebla

The paper aims to make explicit the theological sense of the evolution of the expressions of Latin American spirituality between the General Episcopal Conferences of Medellín and Puebla. Thus, the paper is the result of a profound and systematic research –following the theological method proposed by Bernard Lonergan- which studies the writings on spirituality produced during the indicated period. It focuses on the Liberation Spirituality which was developed on the fringes of the traditional religious practices and on the experience of God that occurs through the contact with the poor, i.e., in the middle of a search for liberation. The paper states that the theological sense of the emergence and unfolding of such spirituality lies in the idea that the Spirit expresses itself in the liberation of the poor and in the formation of a biblical spirituality, which is Christocentric and includes the political dimension of love.