Spirituality as access to truth: a provocation of Michel Foucault for Theology
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This article aims to analyze the issue of access to truth and spirituality in the works of Michel Foucault in his last phase, given its implications for the construction of theological discourse. The concern is to identify to what extent it is possible to undertake a theological knowledge with presuppositions as investigations of Foucault on care of the self. The issues surrounding the access to truth and spirituality in Foucault's thinking provides a transversal with the way of construction of theological knowledge, especially by the fact that Christianity and Western theology appropriated the techniques of the self in the Greco-Roman period, which resulted in ways of thinking about subjectivity in modernity. The identification of this field of research enables Theology a new way to for contemporary dialogue and a review of the ways of asserting a pastoral action towards human condition in its experiential reality.
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