Retos del instrumentalismo tecnocrático para una nueva ética teológica: una visión de la tecnología desde la axiología, las Sagradas Escrituras y la antropología teológica

The topic of the body and sexuality is understood as a symbolic and cultural space for new identities, violence, and resignifications. In the Catholic context, the religious discourse on the human person at Vatican II (1962–1965) sought to open a space for the acceptance of a personalist and less casuistic view of the moral act. However, resistance and fundamentalism plague this opening. It is known that, with the dawn of modern and contemporary subjectivity, the affirmation of secularized sciences and anthropologies, previously theocentric discourses lost ground and symbolic and cultural power in the emancipated consciousnesses of new subjects. Decolonial reflection emerges in this context of deconstruction of a single perspective and gives visibility to the diversity of social and religious actors. This ethical challenge generates a new mentality in which dialogue within a pluralistic context, imposed as a necessary form of adaptation. This article will seek to understand this complex phenomenon through three moments. The first will explore the theme of corporeality throughout modernity and the new decolonial approach to it. The next step will be to explore the meaning of corporeality from Vatican II to subsequent Catholic interpretations. Finally, the paper will explore how it is possible to discuss a decolonial ethics of the body amidst the violence of narratives and the place of the subject.