Mexico is experiencing its highest levels of violence. Enforced disappearances have been happening for 50 years and nowadays are normalized: more than 73,000 people are missing with on average 1 person disappears every hour. The Mexican government has more than 26,000 unidentified bodies. The most violent year was 2019 with 38,000 killed. However, 2020 will surpass this number. Families and relatives have organized searches through regional collectives and “The National Brigade of Search for Missing People,” finding Jesus-el-buscador in their midst. Their motto while they search and ask, “Where are my children?” is #BuscandoNosEncontramos. This motto is a strong theological statement, calling for aesthetic belonging in dynamic communities and relationships. The motto points to a humanizing process. But this faith exists in freedom outside recognized institutional religion. Their voices provoke the public sphere, claiming truth and justice, through what this thesis will term kairological memory: eternal memory in the process of exploring possible healing and the sacredness of all life, even when a person is not found or cannot be identified. This kairological memory exists in contrast to Walter Benjamin ́s concepts on history through chronological memory, an aesthetic of fear and death, focusing on the present moment. Chronological memory forgets all possible dignity, identity and sacredness of those missing, forgetting the wounds from the past and provoking daily new wounds, which are affirmed and aggravated by the government and institutional religion in the public sphere. Bonhoeffer’s Christological theology (through the form, formation and place of Christ in life and history), offers the possibility of recognizing a corrupted heritage from the past, and acknowledging the present hope, love and faith. In bringing this theology into dialogue with the context of enforced disappearances, this thesis argues there is the possibility to stop the harming, and for future healing in the current national, forensic, necropolitical crisis in Mexico. The account offered will be an Aesthetic Public Theology from the Margins based on the form ultimate reality, in the reconciler, Jesus Christ.
