A Human Catechism: A Journey from Violence and Collective Woundedness to Peacebuilding - Paperback

by Joel David Aguilar Ramirez (Author)

A Human Catechism is a theopoetic journey. It is the integration of personal experience, theological reflection, and contextual analysis. This book proposes a radical way of discipleship in which we are invited to run the risk of positively imitating one another through the imitation of Christ. If violence happens through the imitation of one another, maybe good things do too. As the reader embarks on a contextually self-reflective journey, this book invites us to take the chance of believing in a God in whom there is no violence. A Human Catechism will be a journey from what seemed impossible, to what became second nature, all the way to becoming responsible for modeling a way of being otherwise to those around us.

Author Biography

Joel David Aguilar Ramirez has dedicated his adult life to forming incarnational leaders who love their city and seek its peace in Guatemala City. He has a PhD in practical theology from the University of Pretoria in South Africa, a master's degree in global urban leadership from Bakke Graduate University, and a bachelor's degree in theology from the Central American Theological Seminary; he is the academic dean at the Community for Interdisciplinary Theological Studies (ceticontinental.org) and a senior fellow and ordained member of the Street Psalms community (streetpsalms.org). He is married to Annette, and they have two daughters.