Expressions and experiences of baptismal co-responsibility in a synodal key Synodal experience of the archdiocese of the Most Holy Concepción

Abstract

This research addresses the role and development of co-responsibility as a theological category from the particular experience of the Church of Concepción in Chile developed between 2013 and 2016, prior to the listening process given in the universal Church (Synod of Bishops). It begins with a brief contextualization of the synodal history in Concepción, continuing with the discussion between the category of co-responsibility together with the synodal elements of participation, dialogue and discernment, confronted with the challenges that were born from the VII Synod of Concepción. The purpose is to put in antecedent that the synodality lived from a local Church, gives certainty of its natural conformation and origin in the ecclesial life, because it sprouts in a moment where there were no precisions that allowed to understand the synodal life, fundamentally seen from the exercise of co-responsibility of the people of God. And it is through the experience of the VII Synod of Concepción, together with all those instances derived from it, that the need for a reformulation of the ecclesial life itself becomes evident, which builds a community that assumes itself from its diverse types of experiences and recognizes the importance of being more co-responsible, reflective, dialoguing, participative and fraternal in the face of the challenges of evangelization.