The bio-theo-political paradigm of autarchy and the paradoxical living God
Abstract: In the Western tradition, life has been defined within the idea of reflexivity and unity. These two features of life are intertwined in what I call the Bio-Theo-Political Paradigm of autarchy, in which living beings are defined primarily as self-sufficient entities. The perfect living be...
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Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana. Facultad de Teología
2021
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| Sumario: | Abstract: In the Western tradition, life has been defined within the idea of reflexivity and unity. These two features of life
are intertwined in what I call the Bio-Theo-Political Paradigm of autarchy, in which living beings are defined
primarily as self-sufficient entities. The perfect living being, thus, will be the most autarchic, one that can achieve
perfect unity within its own self- referred dynamics. This perfect living being is God, and Western theology
(both Greek and Christian) conceptualized God as “thought of thought”, for only the intellect can achieve a
pure reflexive unity. However, Plotinus and Jean-Paul Sartre (two very different philosophers, coming from
very different traditions and in very different contexts) showed the difficulties of such a definition of God. This
paper aims at problematizing the Bio-Theo-Political Paradigm of autarchy by showing its inconsistency when
reaching the idea of a perfect living being. In doing so, a need to rethink life and God is fostered, a need that
Christian Theology in particular should face in order to build a theology of a Trinitarian living God. |
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