Ginés de Sepúlveda, American Dominance Theology Apostle

Abstract The liberation theology developed by Enrique Dussel (1983) is crucial to understand and place the colonial literature in the field of historic development and in contemporaneity. It also contrasts its object of study through the concept of domination theology, which is situated in the second modernity as a synthesis of Descartes, Hegel, and Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (2003). Our analysis will be informed by Capera and Ñanez’s (2017) discussion about the Weberian concept of domination as well as René Girald’s (1998) contribution on the themes of violence and the sacred. The intention is to demonstrate that the origin of this modern imperial (anti)theology was anticipated in the work of Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, during the XVI century, in pieces such as Gonsalus (1940) y Democrates II, or Concerning the Just Causes of the War Against the Indians (1892).