Reality and challenges of mission and missiology in Latin America: in a synodal perspective

Abstract

This article analyzes current mission and missiology
in Latin America –material object– from the viewpoint of
synodality –formal object–, in order to offer some challenges
and paths for missionary renewal in the light of epochal change.
The perspective is missiological, expressing a frontier theology
that seeks to illumine missionary praxis from the beacon of faith, which is clarified and potentiated when it lets itself be
questioned by, and dialogues with, socio-cultural challenges of
the moment. It is frontier because it examines the signs of the
times from the perspective of existencial peripheries.