Academic literature on the topic 'Quechua Catechisms'

El Concilio de Trento propuso la implementación de nuevos modos de atraer a los neófitos a la fe católica. Siguiendo estas directivas, los concilios eclesiásticos de Lima en el virreinato del Perú, auspiciaron la catequización en lenguas nativas por medio de la publicación de gramáticas y catecismos. Por estar dirigido a los andinos y por sus numerosos himnos en lengua quechua, entre estas publicaciones sobresale Símbolo católico indiano (1598) de Luis Jerónimo de Oré. Este ensayo destaca la importancia de Símbolo, analiza la temática de los himnos, su relación con antiguas prácticas católicas y cómo los cánticos adquieren un carácter singular en el contexto peruano. Abstract The Council of Trent promoted new ways to attract the neophytes to the Catholic faith. Following these directives, the Lima Church Councils in the Viceroyalty of Peru sponsored the publication of catechisms and grammars in native languages to help missionize the Andean population. Addressed to the indigenous groups and including numerous hymns in Quechua, Símbolo Católico Indiano (1598) by Luis Jerónimo de Oré, is representative of these efforts. This essay underscores the importance of Símbolo; it analyzes the themes of the hymns, their link to ancient Catholic practices, and how they acquire their singularity within the Peruvian context.

Brother Luis Jerónimo de Oré’s Symbolo Catholico Indiano was the most important and authorized sixteenth century treatise for the evangelization of the native Andean peoples. In its pages we find a vivid image of Andean reality immediately after the Conquest and a fervent exposition of the Catholic faith inspired in the recent Councils of Trent and Lima. The treatise also presents the missioning methods that served the Franciscans and other priests of the Viceroyalty for the evangelization of the indigenous peoples. Above all, in this text we find an admirable exposition of the theological doctrine and catechetical practice in the anthropological perspective that forms its starting point, which is the Andean man or woman who had never heard a message of salvation and dignity for the human person. Brother Luis Jerónimo de Oré Rojas OFM was born in Huamanga in 1554 (now the geographi- cal Department of Ayacucho in Perú). He was a zealous missionary who travelled throughout the colonizers’ territory, from the extreme north of Florida to the extreme south of Chile. As an intelli- gent linguist he was the author of important rituals and catechisms in Quechua and Aymara. He was one of the first bishops born on the American soil, and the first to be incorporated into the Native Indian Council and the Vatican hierarchy; as a bishop he stood out for his protection of aboriginal groups and his energetic defense of the cultural integrity of Native Indian nations.