In recent times, liberation theologies have critically pointed out the colonial entanglements of traditional creation theologies as developed in Western theologies in the modern era. From Latin American perspectives in particular, problematic patterns of thought are not only exposed and deconstructed, but also creatively rethought in dialogue and fellowship between theologians and indigenous communities. Dialogical-hermeneutical principles, as developed in the so-called teologías indias cristianas, are capable of fruitfully opening up theological argumentation beyond the methods developed in the European philosophical-theological tradition (and often set as 'normative'). Intercultural, interconfessional and interreligious relations are becoming constitutive for theology and religious practice in the face of the complex eco-social crisis.
The paper contributes to the important task of the multidimensional revision of a decolonial, context- and eco-socially sensitive theology of creation. In dialogue with liberation theology approaches and indigenous communities in Latin America, it explores traces of eco-theological reflection in the history of Latin American theology and rethinks topoi of 'classical' theology of creation of the Western tradition in dialogue with the beliefs and practices of indigenous communities.