Dimensión política del lacunzismo y su repercusión en América Latina

The Millenarianism of Manuel Lacunza (1731-1801), manifested in his work The Coming of the Messiah in Glory and Majesty, written in exile, maintains as a central thesis that before the end of history and the resurrection of the dead will take place a Messianic, terrestrial, public and visible kingdom of Jesus Christ where the promises of full life, peace and justice that God has made to humanity will be fully fulfilled. Combining prophetic-apocalyptic elements with features of a utopian thought, Lacunza bases the expectation of a new time, better than the present, which will imply a social, political and cosmic transformation. The article shows the political scope that Lacunza’s work had especially in the first decades of the 19th century in a Latin America that sought to consolidate its ideals of eman-cipation.