Abstract

ROLDAN, Alberto F.. The methodological proposal of Sallie McFague in the search for new models for a metaphorical theology. Franciscanum [online]. 2017, vol.59, n.168, pp.197-228. ISSN 0120-1468.

In the present article, the methodological proposal of Sallie McFague for the articulation of a metaphorical theology is analyzed. In the first part, the author emphasizes the place that the American theologian gives to metaphor as a resource of language and, in turn, the criticism that faces two diametrically opposite expressions, namely: Biblical fundamentalism -for its literalism- and Derrida's deconstruction characterized by admitting nothing outside the text, thereby attempting to elude the conflict of interpretations. In the second section of the paper, what is meant by «metaphorical theology» is defined for McFague, emphasizing that it is a heuristic construction that privileges the imagination to expose the relations between God and the world in order to remitologize the Christian faith to from the paradigm of Jesus. In the third part, we analyze McFague's reinterpretation of Christ's resurrection to affirm the world as the «body» of God. The fourth section presents the new metaphors proposed by the American theologian referred to God as mother, friend and lover. The final part of the work consists of an evaluation of McFague's proposal highlighting the creativity and audacity of the American theologian who, beyond a certain pantheistic tendency when she refers to the world as «body» of God, offers important elements for the construction of a metaphorical theology inscribed within feminism. The author states that the metaphorical theology offered by Sallie McFague makes it possible to recover Jesus' message about the Kingdom of God in its anti-hierarchical and anti-triumphalist dimensions, sealed by classical systematic theologies.

Keywords : Method; metaphorical theology; feminism; hermeneutics; Sallie McFague. Abstract.

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