A Theological Anthropology for Human Flourishing: Postcolonial and Feminist Reflections for These Trouble Times

This article offers a Christian theological anthropology that is both thoroughly theological and responsive to critical postcolonial and feminist perspectives, in their insistence that human power relations are considered. The tradition of theological anthropology is summarized in three moments, foc...

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Main Author: Daggers, Jenny 1950- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Peeters [2018]
In: Louvain studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 41, Issue: 2, Pages: 152-172
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Theological anthropology / Feminist theology / Gender-specific role / Good living (motif)
IxTheo Classification:FD Contextual theology
NBE Anthropology
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Summary:This article offers a Christian theological anthropology that is both thoroughly theological and responsive to critical postcolonial and feminist perspectives, in their insistence that human power relations are considered. The tradition of theological anthropology is summarized in three moments, focussing respectively: on the rational soul in imago Dei, assuming a unitary human nature; on the self-realising subject in relation combined with strong assertion of a fixed gender binary; on the imago Dei in the plurality and heterogeneity within humanity, alert to issues of power and justice. While postcolonial and feminist perspectives enrich the third moment, they tend to valorise the immanence of God within human relations at the expense of the radical alterity of the transcendent God. The article draws on enriched anthropological notions of plurality while remaining fully theological in terms of God's immanence and transcendence.
ISSN:1783-161X
Contains:Enthalten in: Louvain studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.2143/LS.41.2.3284884