Mujerista Theology’s Divine Resistance
Scholars Amanda Bolaños and Amirah Orozco discuss mujerista theology, pneumatological ecclesiology and lo cotodiano
In this episode of OP Talks, Amanda Bolaños talks with fellow graduate student Amirah Orozco about mujerista theology, pneumatological ecclesiology and lo cotidiano (the everyday). Bolaños asks Orozco to imagine a conversation with late activist and theologian Ada María Isasi-Diaz for whom lo cotidiano was central to her work. Bolaños and Orozco are close friends and theology doctoral students at Duke Divinity School and the University of Notre Dame, respectively. Orozco credits the work of Isasi-Diaz as part of the foundation that led her to ”understand what mujerista theology was more directly and become sort of aware of the different style and the different flavor that mujerista theology gives us.”
If she could talk with the late Isasi-Diaz, Bolaños asks Orozco, what would she ask? “I think that my big conversation with her would be [about] Pope Francis,” said Orozco. “I think it is a real tragedy that we don't have her around to be thinking with us in this moment where the [Roman Catholic] church is opening up in a new way.”