We also have Christiane Joseph Jocson’s “Juan Luis Segundo’s Hermeneutical Circle: A Continual Hermeneutical Encounter of the Word and the World” wherein he examines the work of the Uruguayan Jesuit theologian and a prominent figure in Latin American Liberation Theology. The author takes a close look at Segundo’s “hermeneutical circle,” which he describes as “an arduous journeying with one another,” not unlike the synodal process. This “feet on the ground” theology—or a kind of theology ‘done on our feet’ as described by Fr. Daniel Franklin Pilario, C.M. in his Facebook tribute to Fr. Arévalo—advocates a mutual encounter between the Word and the world in the process of trying to understand divine revelation. Adopting a critical attitude of “suspicion” that enables an awareness, if not unraveling of the “ideological veil” in existing interpretations, this method that promotes that the poor are the decisive “hermeneutical key” in understanding the Word of God, especially in contexts where poverty rooted in injustice afflicts the lives of many people. It challenges our traditional ways of doing theology and banks on the “creative power of the Spirit” to unleash the dynamism of the Word that longs to be incarnated again in us by way of praxis.

