Research
Scholarship at the frontier.
My research starts from a suspicion: that religion and economics are not separate domains brought together by modern secularization, but categories that co-produced each other through centuries of colonial encounter.
My doctoral dissertation, “Debt, Guilt, and Coloniality: On the Economics of Christian Salvation,” traces how theological notions of redemption and salvation are articulated by economic notions of debt and guilt. These concepts did not travel in one direction. They co-constructed each other, and in doing so, shaped the very systems and structures that frame economic activity today.
Presenting at the American Academy of Religion (AAR), Boston, 2025.
This work sits at the intersection of economic theology, religious ethics, decolonial and postcolonial thought, and intercultural studies. I am interested in what happens when you stop treating these as separate fields and start reading them through one another.
My research has been funded by three consecutive Louisville Institute fellowships (doctoral, dissertation, postdoctoral), and presented at the American Academy of Religion, the Canadian Theological Society, and the World Communion of Reformed Churches.
Research areas
Economic theology and the theology of debt
Christian salvation and colonial power
Decolonial and postcolonial ethics
Intercultural and liberation theology
Ecclesiology and missiology
Religion and economic structures
Memberships
American Academy of Religion
Canadian Theological Society
Globethics Pool of Experts
WCC Commission on Climate Justice
Selected publications
The Price of Tomorrow: How Capitalism and Christian Theology Commodify the Future
Toronto Journal of Theology, 40(2): 151-162
ArticleEthics in Higher Education, a Transversal Dimension (Editor)
Geneva: Globethics.net. 148 pp.
Edited volumeEtica y economia: la relacion danada. Profundizando los modos de un autentico desarrollo humano integral sostenible, Parte 2 (Editor)
Geneva: Globethics.net. 313 pp.
Edited volumeA Scene of Kidnapping in an Apocalyptic Approach: Conflict, Ethics, Post-Conflict in the Colombian Context
In Poetry and Ethics. Geneva: Globethics.net. 25-30
Book chapterEtica y economia: la relacion danada. Aportes camino al G-20 (Editor)
Geneva: Globethics.net. 313 pp.
Edited volumeEco-Theological Education: Protestant Perspectives from Latin America
In Eco-Theology, Climate Justice and Food Security. Geneva: Globethics.net. 283-292
Book chapterChange, Significance and Challenges. A New View of Religion or New Theology of Religions
VOICES Theological Journal, New Series, Vol XXXV, no. 1: 135-139
ArticleDeus Absconditus in Luther. An Approach to Theology of Religious Pluralism
Forum Mission Journal, Vol. 6: 20-38
ArticlePliny to Sabinian, 'Your Free Slave'
Cuadernos de Teologia Vol. XXVIII: 179-198
ArticleRecent presentations
Beyond Secularization: Unmasking the Theological-Economic Logic of Colonial Power
American Academy of Religion, Secularism and Secularity Unit
In Debt We Trust? The Theological Foundations of a Modern Credo
World Communion of Reformed Churches, London, UK
The Indebted Body as an Economic Rape: The Religious Violence of Economic Debt
American Academy of Religion, Foucault and the Study of Religion Seminar
The Price of Tomorrow: How Capitalism and Christian Theology Commodify the Future
Canadian Theological Society Conference, Montreal