Any theology: liberation and the problem of “historical subjects”

Abstract

This article problematizes, from a field of study that articulates philosophy and political theology, the programmatic imaginary of a hegemonic Liberation Theology (LT). LTs take the practical commitment to the concreteness of the reign of God as something fundamental, in a critique of the models of society in which we are inserted, constructed as a “civilization of poverty”. In this exercise, theologians came across the “emergence of new theological subjects” related to “new historical projects”. Using a methodology that starts from bibliographical analyses, this text summarizes the idea of ​​“whatever singularity”, present in the book The Community That Comes (2001), by Giorgio Agamben. From this, this article dialogues directly with Ivone Gebara and Marcella Althaus-Reid, theologians who question the majority paths of LT. Along with them, the approach taken here also assumes, in a sort of articulating line, the reflections of Colby Dickinson, an important reader of this Italian philosopher in his relationship with theology. As main conclusions, this text avoids an adaptation and absorption in the “hard core” of a theological practice centered on a “sovereign-transcendent political paradigm”. In this way, the “qualunque” being challenges a theology in its couplings of difference to the primordial identity expected and invented in the category “poor”.