32 research outputs found
Marx in a Gay Bar: Indecent Theology as a Reflection on the Theology of Liberation and Sexuality
This article seeks to analyze the relationship between the theology of liberation and sexuality critically. Without denying Latin American Liberation Theology and Feminist Theology’s influence in her thought, Marcella Althaus-Reid demonstrates exchanges between these theologies and the changes that occurred in recent years. However, both theologies arrived at a limit. It’s necessary to go beyond. This «beyond» is the Indecent Theology that inserts fluid sexuality in the contemporary theological agenda
Sobre no parecerse a Cristo
Traditionally, Roman Catholicism has postulated that Jesus was a man who chose men to follow his mission as priests and that women cannot symbolically represent the masculinity of the messiah. Latin American Liberation Theology took the pattern of women’s work in communities to develop its way of theologizing. Women practiced this type of theology mainly for reasons of political exclusion. Due to this, the article explores the theology of women around the issues of female ordination, taking into account its methods based on participatory principles where people occupy the first place
Fat, syn and disordered eating: The dangers and powers of excess
This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Fat Studies on 8 April 2015 available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/10.1080/21604851.2015.1016777This article draws on qualitative research inside one UK secular commercial weight loss group to show how ancient Christian suspicions of appetite and pleasure resurface in this group’s language of “Syn.” Following ancient Christian representations of sin, members assume that Syn depicts disorder and that fat is a visible sign of a body which has fallen out of place. Syn, though, is ambiguous, utilizing ancient theological meanings to discipline fat while containing within it the power to resist the very borders which hold women’s bodies and fat in place. Syn thus signals both the dangers and powers of disordered eating.This article draws on qualitative research inside one UK secular commercial weight loss group to show how ancient Christian suspicions of appetite and pleasure resurface in this group’s language of “Syn.” Following ancient Christian representations of sin, members assume that Syn depicts disorder and that fat is a visible sign of a body which has fallen out of place. Syn, though, is ambiguous, utilizing ancient theological meanings to discipline fat while containing within it the power to resist the very borders which hold women’s bodies and fat in place. Syn thus signals both the dangers and powers of disordered eating
Paul Ricoeur and the methodology of the theology of liberation : the hermeneutics of J. Severino Croalto, Juan Luis Segundo and Clodovis Boff
The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to a better understanding of
the theology of liberation, through the study of the influence of the
hermeneutical circle of Paul Ricoeur on its methodology.
Ricoeur is an interdisciplinary philosopher whose reflections are the
product of a Transcendental Phenomenology in dialogue with Human Sciences
and studies in the interpretation of symbols. Chapter one is an
introduction to Ricoeur's interpretation theory and his hermeneutical
circle. Chapter two deals with the specific elements of Ricoeur's Biblical
Hermeneutic, the dynamic of symbols and the theory of myths. In the second
part of chapter two we compare these elements with Rudolph Bultmann's
demythologising project, and describe Ricoeur's most important
contributions to Biblical interpretation.
Chapter three studies the development of Ricoeur's Biblical hermeneutic in
the work of three influential hermeneuticians from Latin America:
J. Severino Croatto from Argentina, Juan Luis Segundo from Uruguay, and
Clodovis Boff from Brazil. Each of these has based his interpretation
theory on Ricoeur's work. We search for the basic tensions and conflicts in
each of these three theologians, such as that between tradition and
re-creation of meaning in the Scriptures, and their ways to resolve them in
a new interpretative synthesis.
Finally, in chapter four we present our conclusions and reflections.
1) Ricoeur's contribution to liberation theology in three main areas:
the search for the Latin American identity, the actual praxis of liberation
and the development of a concept of positive utopia.
2) The influence of Ricoeur in the work of Croatto, Segundo and Boff.
3) The original contribution of liberation theology to Ricoeur'g
hermeneutical circle.
This contribution comes from the hermeneutical function of the Basic
Ecclesial Communities which complete Ricoeur's own project of a philosophy
of action