A invenção do pecado por uma teologia pós/de-colonial

Abstract

This thesis proposes a documentary and bibliographical investigation. Overall, the research investigates the relationship between the logic of power, post/de-colonial theory and the meaning of the term sin. The aim is to understand how power structures manipulate mechanisms of oppression present even in biblical witness. To achieve this purpose some specific objectives were outlined: 1) to identify the relationship between interpretation and power; 2) research the main analytics of power to understand its operation; 3) apply post /de colonial reading methods for reading the biblical text; 4) identify in the biblical text the possibility of a post /de-colonial theology. The result of the research is intended to serve as a method of analysis for post /de-colonial understanding of biblical texts. The research suggests that, from the data analyzed, the idea of sin imposed itself as a power structure and reached an epistemic sense in the legal fixation, starting to configure reality from the perspective of the dominators. It also suggests that resistance movements and frontier theologies have imposed themselves on power structures, even though they have not attained longevity. Finally, the research demonstrates that the post /de-colonial option was already made in the first and second testaments, and the approximation with Anibal Quijano's “social classification” theories and Walter Mignolo's “frontier mentality” made possible an unclassified hermeneutics, where sin is not alienating the relationship with God and grace has proved to be a post/de-colonial theology.