My dissertation argues that the discipline of theological anthropology has been complicit in the colonial project of subjugating non-Western ways of being human and the earth. My research undertakes womanist and decolonial methodologies, by recovering the use of the imago dei from conventional approaches to theological anthropology and arguing that Caribbean Canadian writings also offer a liberative account of what it means to Human.

By attending to womanist theologians, decolonial thinkers, and Caribbean Canadian writers, a dynamic understanding of what it means to image God might emerge. Building on the scholarship of Catholic theologian M. Shawn Copeland, my dissertation asserts that human beings can be understood as enfleshed beings who upend the anthropological assumptions of Western Man. I broaden the scope of decolonial and womanist theological reflection in North America by intentionally engaging Caribbean Canadian writers as interlocutors.

The enfleshed and poetic insights from traditionally oppressed women reveal that other ways of affirming the goodness of humanity, beyond Eurocentric grammars, are not only possible but unfolding. After the twin catastrophes of colonialism and slavery, a poetic expansion of the imago dei leaves theologians with an understanding of humanity and all creation as entangled kin.