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| author |
Roberto Che Espinoza
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Becoming Trans Trans Becoming: Towards a TransChristology
| | abstract |
This project traces lived experience, story and narrative, and materialist philosophies and theories to imagine a new fold in Christian Theology, particularly a TransChristology. While I depart from traditional conceptions of theology, my intentional turn in becoming Trans, I hold on to parts of Orthodoxies and Traditions to conceive of a TransChristology. We are facing a theological crisis globally, and we need new methodological tools and animated orientations to respond to the global theological crisis. We need to see and advocate for the Trans-Humation of all things. In order to accomplish this task, I look to new materialism and the theorists who produce a generative materiality as it relates to bodies, which are dynamic and in flow with processes of becoming. Christology, as a doctrine of the Church solidifies the person and work of Jesus, but what of counter-hegemonic bodies? What of bodies that are readily disposed of in our current times? What might a TransChristology look like, feel like, taste like when we reconsider bodies as generative materiality and not only inactive matter or failed matter? We see Jesus in a new light when we rethink bodies along the lines of a generative materiality. We see what is possible in theology when we incorporate the lived Trans experience; and we reframe the person and work of Jesus along mythopoetic lines when we encourage a bodily becoming. A TransChristology is the emergence of God becoming human and perhaps more deeply human. We see the fullness of God in a TransChristology that helps to frame the Transhumation (this word is a word that I borrow from Nancy Bedford; it points to Transhumanism) of all things.
| | school |
The Theological School, Drew University
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D.Min. (2024)
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| advisor |
Catherine Keller
Nancy Bedford
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| full text | REspinoza.pdf |
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