Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Postcolonial theology'
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Horan, Daniel P. "Imagining Planetarity: Toward a Postcolonial Franciscan Theology of Creation." Thesis, Boston College, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:107266.
Full textThe proliferation in recent decades of “stewardship model” approaches for developing a theology of creation, which places human beings at the center of the cosmos as caretakers or managers of the divine oikos, is the result of an intentional effort to correct overtly problematic “dominion model” approaches that have contributed both to reifying a sense of human sovereignty and the resulting environmental degradation. However, the first part of this dissertation argues that the stewardship model of creation actually operates under many of the same problematic presuppositions as the dominion model, and therefore does not offer a correction but rather a tacit re-inscription of the very same pitfalls. After close consideration and analysis of the stewardship model, this dissertation identifies scriptural, theological, and philosophical sources to support the adoption of a “kinship” or “community of creation” model. Drawing on postcolonial theorists and theologians as key critical and constructive interlocutors, this project then proposes the concept of “planetarity” as a framework for conceiving of the relationship between human and other-than-human creation, as well as the relationship between the whole of creation and the Creator, in a new way. This theoretical framework invites a theological supplément, which, this dissertation argues, is found best in the writings of the medieval Franciscan tradition. Several distinctive characteristics of the Franciscan theological tradition offer key constructive contributions. Among these themes are the foundational sense of the interrelatedness, mutuality, and intended harmony of creation within the early spiritual texts and later Franciscan theological and philosophical writings; John Duns Scotus’s distinctive principle of individuation; the alternative appropriation of Peter John Olivi’s category of usus pauper for use in navigating the tension between creation’s intrinsic and instrumental value; and the application of a Franciscan understanding of the virtue of pietas as a proposal for environmental praxis. The result is what can be called a postcolonial Franciscan theology of creation imagined in terms of planetarity as reconceived in a theological key. It is a constructive and non-anthropocentric response to the need for a new conceptualization of the doctrine of creation
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2016
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Theology
Finley, Jonathan Michael. "Postcolonial Cultural Hybridity and the Influence of the Gospel in Transnational French-Speaking Networks." Thesis, Fuller Theological Seminary, School of Intercultural Studies, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13811425.
Full textA central feature of Christianity is the observable historical fact that the gospel of Jesus travels across cultural and geographic boundaries, influencing and transforming each new culture and place it touches. Postcolonial migration, urbanization, and the simultaneous development of global communication and transportation technologies have radically increased the frequency and duration of cross-cultural contact worldwide.
This study explores hybrid identity construction in a multicultural church in the Paris Region in order to understand the influence of the gospel within transnational French-speaking networks. I found that French hegemony, historically rooted in the colonial project, contributes both to the cohesion of multicultural churches and to the cross-cultural spread of the gospel within French-speaking networks.
Cultural hybrids serve as bridge people within transcultural, transnational, French-speaking networks. They maintain identities and social networks on both sides of given cultural, linguistic, geographic, and national frontiers. Unique hybrid identities offer equally unique opportunities to influence for Christ on both sides of a given boundary.
Cultural hybridity can be a privileged in-between space where the distinct nature of Christian faith becomes manifest. When observing one’s original culture as an outsider and taking on a new culture as an insider, both cultures are relativized. This critical posture unmasks totalistic ideologies and sends the cultural hybrid in search of a coherent identity, which participants found in Christ and his church.
While transnational French-speaking networks and cultural hybridity contribute providentially to the spread of the gospel, they can also be pursued as strategic resources for the mission enterprise. Transnational French-speaking social links can be intentionally followed across missional boundaries. These networks take many forms, each pregnant with unique opportunities. Cultural hybrids can lead strategically between diverse peoples for specific missional purposes within transcultural and transnational French-speaking networks. Hybrid leadership stands on a two-way bridge, bringing diverse peoples across in both directions for reconciliation, for cross-cultural collaboration, and to announce the good news where Jesus is not yet known.
Tinsley, Annie. "Towards a re-reading of Colossians from an African American postcolonial perspective." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2010. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/1192/.
Full textRukundwa, Lazare Sebitereko. "Justice and righteousness in Matthean theology and its relevance to the Banyamulenge community a postcolonial reading /." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2005. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-09292006-145455/.
Full textHeaney, Robert Stewart. "Culture, context, and theology : the emergence of an African theology in the writings of John S. Mbiti and Jesse N.K. Mugambi." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.669879.
Full textWood, Maureen M. "A Dialogue on Feminist Biblical Hermeneutics: Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Musa Dube, and John Paul II on Mark 5 and John 4." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1375116095.
Full textGillerstrand, Inger. "På väg mot en interkulturell mission : En postkolonial feministteologisk analys av Equmeniakyrkans internationella mission." Thesis, Teologiska högskolan Stockholm, Avdelningen för teologi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ths:diva-242.
Full textKatchekpele, Leonard Amossou. "Les enjeux politiques de l'Église en Afrique : contribution à une théologie du politique." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015STRAK017.
Full textEchoes from Africa to the world and from the world to Africa seem to tell a single story: Africa fails.Especially political Africa. Among those dashing to help, the commitment of the Church catholic is to be praised but also critically engaged. Can anyone help Africa to modernize by ignoring that in Africa, modernity meant colonization? Then, a question: what is the Church doing, and what can it do qua Church, for Africa? This confronts us with a situation, an action and a critical question. This work, focusing on Togo taken as mirror to the continent, aims at challenging the way the situation is described, at elaborating an answer to the question in hoping to shed a light on the way the action is understood and undertaken. For such an end, it draws on post-colonial studies and on the Cambridge theological movement called Radical Orthodoxy, through the works of J. Milbank and W. Cavanaugh
Chang, Walis Chiou-hsioung. "A convocation house (Prrngawan) biblical interpretation and TYCM tribal postcolonial concerns reading Genesis 2:4b~25 with TYCM ordinary tribal readers." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/9063.
Full textThesis (Ph.D.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2012.
Gora, Kennedy. "Postcolonial readings of 1 Kings 21:1-29 within the context of the struggle for land in Zimbabwe : from colonialism to liberalism to liberation, to the present." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/998.
Full textThesis (M.Th.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2008.
Mwaniki, Lydia Muthoni. "God's image or man's glory? : a Kenyan postcolonial feminist reading of 1 Corinthians 11:1-16." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/3043.
Full textThesis (Ph.D.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2011.
Kiambi, Julius Kithinji. "Postcolonial redaction of socio-economic parables in Luke's gospel and a Kenyan application." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/1207.
Full textThesis (M.Th.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2008.
Nel, Reginald Wilfred. "Discerning an African missional ecclesiology in dialogue with two uniting youth movements." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/10160.
Full textChristian Spirituality, Church History & Missiology
D. Th. (Missiology)
Rugwiji, Temba. "Appropriating Judean post-exilic literature in a postcolonial discourse : a case for Zimbabwe." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/10549.
Full textOld Testament & Ancient Near Eastern Studies
D. Litt. et Phil. (Biblical Studies)
Macleod, Alexander Murdo. "Open church : interpreting Lesslie Newbigin's missiology in India today." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18198.
Full textChristian Spirituality, Church History & Missiology
D. Th. (Missiology)
Epombo-Mwenge, Joseph Bolandza. "Biblical interpretation as social discourse: a study of reconstructive religious discourse in post-colonial Democratic Republic of Congo." Diss., 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/4825.
Full textNew Testament
M. Div. (New Testament)
Ramanandraibe, Herimanitra Alfred. "Les enseignements sociaux de l'Épiscopat catholique de Madagascar, entre régime marxiste et réformes néolibérales (1982-2002) : analyse contextuelle et postcoloniale." Thèse, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/18463.
Full textBased on the perspective of contextual theologies, this research focuses on the discursive strategy of Local Catholic Social Teachings (ESCL) as theological discourses aimed at liberating the population of Madagascar from possible confusions in their social discernment. Using a postcolonial approach, the analysis of the discourses addressed in this thesis studies the way in which Catholic leaders develop their social teachings. These theological discourses are designed according to their interpretation of the situation of the country between 1982 and 2002. Using postcolonial discursive analysis mean scrutinize the presence of colonial categories in the ESCL. The presence of generalizations and unfounded affirmations, the way of thinking in dichotomy, and the hierarchization of ideas and humans will be verified. The analysis takes into account the importance of the relationships that link the ESCL to the Malagasy cultural identity combined to the process of neoliberal globalization and the process of democratization of the Island of Madagascar.