Befrielsebönerna på feministteologisk grund: Ett möte mellan befrielsebönerna i Kyrkohandbok för Svenska kyrkan och feministteologisk strategisk essentialism
(2022) TLVK10 20221Centre for Theology and Religious Studies
- Abstract
- Prayer has its origin in the Bible and as a practise it serves a lot of purposes. One of these is to convey the teachings of the church, which takes the form of liturgical prayer in a worship service. The two liberation prayers within the baptismal liturgy of the Swedish church, convey the teachings of the church on original sin, and the thesis of this essay is that the two choices provided for the clergy are not innocent even if they are presented as equivalent. Writing the essay, the author have the assumption that if one approaches these two prayers from an identity discussion; it becomes clear that one prayer is in an essentialist tradition regarding the view of identity’s relationship to sin while the second prayer is in a... (More)
- Prayer has its origin in the Bible and as a practise it serves a lot of purposes. One of these is to convey the teachings of the church, which takes the form of liturgical prayer in a worship service. The two liberation prayers within the baptismal liturgy of the Swedish church, convey the teachings of the church on original sin, and the thesis of this essay is that the two choices provided for the clergy are not innocent even if they are presented as equivalent. Writing the essay, the author have the assumption that if one approaches these two prayers from an identity discussion; it becomes clear that one prayer is in an essentialist tradition regarding the view of identity’s relationship to sin while the second prayer is in a constructivist tradition. The purpose is to clarify how these two liberation prayers differ theologically and to discuss what a theology of the doctrine of original sin needs to contain in order to be acceptable today. The essay uses feminist theory and idea analysis as methods in order to both understand the underlying identity discussion and to be able to answer the main two questions of this essay. Narrowing it down to two feminist theologians, the author turned to mainly use Rosemary Radford Ruether and Serene Jones.
The conclusion is that both liberation prayers were deficient both in terms of how well they balance the two opposite poles of essentialism and constructivism, in the view of identity’s relationship to sin; but also according to the three key theological concepts for an acceptable theology of original sin, which the author took from reading Ruether and Jones. The conclusion recommends both a revision of the two liberation prayers, and for theology students and researchers: a continued interest in theological language and its consequences; and summons up with my positioning that normative narratives should not be taken for granted, theologians should instead continue to dare discussing alleged natural state of people and things. (Less)
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- author
- Angusson, Agge LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- TLVK10 20221
- year
- 2022
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Liberation prayer, baptism liturgy, hamartiology, original sin, feminist theology, essentialism, constructivism, strategic essentialism
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9175151
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- 2024-09-23 09:30:22
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- 2024-09-23 09:30:22
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abstract = {{Prayer has its origin in the Bible and as a practise it serves a lot of purposes. One of these is to convey the teachings of the church, which takes the form of liturgical prayer in a worship service. The two liberation prayers within the baptismal liturgy of the Swedish church, convey the teachings of the church on original sin, and the thesis of this essay is that the two choices provided for the clergy are not innocent even if they are presented as equivalent. Writing the essay, the author have the assumption that if one approaches these two prayers from an identity discussion; it becomes clear that one prayer is in an essentialist tradition regarding the view of identity’s relationship to sin while the second prayer is in a constructivist tradition. The purpose is to clarify how these two liberation prayers differ theologically and to discuss what a theology of the doctrine of original sin needs to contain in order to be acceptable today. The essay uses feminist theory and idea analysis as methods in order to both understand the underlying identity discussion and to be able to answer the main two questions of this essay. Narrowing it down to two feminist theologians, the author turned to mainly use Rosemary Radford Ruether and Serene Jones.
The conclusion is that both liberation prayers were deficient both in terms of how well they balance the two opposite poles of essentialism and constructivism, in the view of identity’s relationship to sin; but also according to the three key theological concepts for an acceptable theology of original sin, which the author took from reading Ruether and Jones. The conclusion recommends both a revision of the two liberation prayers, and for theology students and researchers: a continued interest in theological language and its consequences; and summons up with my positioning that normative narratives should not be taken for granted, theologians should instead continue to dare discussing alleged natural state of people and things.}},
author = {{Angusson, Agge}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Befrielsebönerna på feministteologisk grund: Ett möte mellan befrielsebönerna i Kyrkohandbok för Svenska kyrkan och feministteologisk strategisk essentialism}},
year = {{2022}},
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