Decolonizing the Relation: Between Philosophy and Theology

Since the 1980’s, Enrique Dussel has been regarded as the most important scholar in the fields of philosophy and theology in Latin America. An early contributor to liberation theology, a pioneering leader in the concurrent field of liberation philosophy, all the while being a highly respected historian of the Catholic Church in his own right, Dussel’s work spanned fields, geographies, and world history in an effort to dismantle the Eurocentric and colonialist pretensions of modernity. In this short reflection, I will argue that one of the most significant legacies of Dussel’s work is the urgency to rethink disciplinary divides with an eye towards epistemic decolonization. The relation between history and philosophy and the relation between history and theology are good examples of this interdisciplinarity.