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Inkarnatorisk epistemologi: En transformativ kristologi som teologisk maktkritik i dialog med Theodor Adorno och Gloria Anzaldúa
University College Stockholm, Department of Religious Studies and Theology. (Systematisk teologi/Religionsfilosofi)
2024 (Swedish)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (One Year)), 40 credits / 60 HE creditsStudent thesisAlternative title
Incarnational Epistemology : A transformative christology as power critical theology in dialogue withTheodor Adorno and Gloria Anzaldúa (English)
Abstract [en]

Christ can be understood as a mirror, connecting humanity and God in his image into a hybrid entity, without eliminating the difference. The complex reality is mirrored through Christ transcending the border between subjectivity and objectivity, human and God, ourselves and others. This study is a form of constructive theology that aims to construct a transformative christological conceptual model, which can contribute to theology as a power critical epistemological deconstruction. It does this through the method of critical and comparative text analysis. 

The study consists of two main sections, analysis and the discussion. The analysis section seeks to develop a theoretical frame, in which to generate a conversation between critical theorists Theodor Adorno and Gloria Anzaldúa on their view on epistemological oppression and liberation. The result is the development of an analytical concept called dialectics of the borders that exposes epistemological oppression as understood through the critical terms of oppression of objectivism and the suppressed gap. As an answer to the dialectics of border the analysis section develops the phrase dialectics of the gap, as an expression of epistemological liberation, which relies on such concepts as the shape of the gap, epistemological deconstruction, the hybrid entity, and transformative hybridity.

The discussion section applies this theoretical frame to various christological concepts in order to create a new useful conceptual model. The constructed conceptual model is called incarnational epistemology and expresses an empowering critical epistemological reconstruction in Christ. The cross is understood as the explicit border between God and humanity, which is expressed by man's colonialization of dialectics. In Christ God transcends these epistemological borders and embodies the gap, as an expression for dialectics of the gap. For example it is demonstrated with the understanding of the body of Christ as the hybridization between subjectivity and objectivity and the sanctification as a reversed incarnation by the collective reconstruction of Christ in the border between subjectivity and objectivity. Hence, humanity as the body of Christ through sanctification can be understood as the mirrored image of Christ incarnating this epistemological reconstruction. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2024. , p. 63
Keywords [en]
Adorno; Anzaldúa; Liberation theology; Decolonial theology; Epistemology Epistemological oppression; Constructive theology; Christology; Power critics; Queer theology; Incarnation theology
Keywords [sv]
Adorno; Anzaldúa; Befrielseteologi; Dekolonial teologi; Epistemologi; Epistemologiskt förtryck; Konstruktiv teologi; Kristologi; Maktkritik; Queerteologi; Inkarnationsteologi
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Philosophy, Ethics and Religion
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URN: urn:nbn:se:ths:diva-2448OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ths-2448DiVA, id: diva2:1862594
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Systematic Theology
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Master’s Program in Theology, Systematic Theology, One year
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Available from: 2024-05-30 Created: 2024-05-29 Last updated: 2025-09-15Bibliographically approved

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