Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.18820/23099089/actat.sup33.6
Rokus De Groot
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.18820/23099089/actat.sup33.8
P. Sheldrake
This article focuses on the 14 th -century English visionary mystic and theological writer, Julian of Norwich. It suggests that the key to her mystical theology is that a true “knowledge” of God involves loving engagement with God rather than abstract intellectual enquiry. Julian’s reflections on God’s nature, in relation both to her visions of the crucified Christ and to God-as-Trinity, include an exploration of the image of God as mother. Most importantly, Julian struggled for many years to understand the ultimate meaning and purpose of her visions and what God revealed to her through them for the sake of all her fellow Christians. After a long period of challenging reflection and constantly questioning God, Julian is finally led to understand that God’s relationship with humankind is based on love and, indeed, that God’s ultimate meaning is love and only love.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.18820/23099089/actat.sup33.9
D. Perrin
John of the Cross (1542-1591), a Christian theologian and Catholic priest born in Spain, lived through the worst of the Spanish Inquisition. Emmanuel Lévinas (1906-1995), a Jewish philosopher and layman born in Lithuania, lived through the 1917 Russian Revolution and the collapse of the old regime. What, then, brings these two eminent thinkers together: one from the upheavals of 16 th -century Spain; the other from war-torn 20 th -century France and Germany? Simply put, both of these men refused to start their reflection on life and God from self-contained abstract principles; rather, their point of departure was the ambiguity and complexity of the character of human nature. From this starting point, both are led to a God without or beyond Being. After a comparative analysis of their God talk, the following questions are explored: How do we speak about God? What are the consequences of John’s and Levinas’ radical negation of the Being of God?
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Pub Date : 2021-06-14DOI: 10.18820/23099089/actat.sup31.6
M. S. Kgatle
Recent developments within South African Pentecostalism reveal that a number of pastors in new Prophetic Churches abuse religion and women and engage in other extreme practices of religion. The vast majority of scholars have linked these recent developments with the gap that exists between theory and praxis in South African Pentecostalism. This article bridges the gap by using Patmos, a Bible School started by Elias Letwaba, one of the first Black workers in the Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) of South Africa, as a model. Patmos Bible School was an African institution located in Africa for African people. The Bible School offers relevant content to its students, provides specific training for lay preachers and community service, in addition to academic responsibilities. Patmos Bible School thus serves as a model for synergy between theory and praxis in South African Pentecostalism because of its relevant theological curriculum, embracement of African identity, and African indigenous knowledge. Acta Theologica Supplementum 31 2021 85
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.18820/23099089/actat.sup31.14
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.18820/23099089/actat.sup31.8
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.18820/23099089/actat.v41i1.1
M. Laubscher
E-mail: laubscherm@ufs.ac.za;ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4240-199 [Image omitted: see PDF] Nico Koopman is Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Social Impact, Transformation and Personnel at Stellenbosch University, and Professor of Systematic Theology, Ethics and Public Theology. Unforgettable are the high school years in Kimberley, where we learned to cherish diversity and embrace the other colour, the other religion, the other language, the other culture, the other gender, the other sexual orientation, the one living with disability or with differently abledness. At the University of the Western Cape, the Free University in Amsterdam, Stellenbosch University and all local and international university partners, we acquired and keep on acquiring the intellectual skills to develop impact-making theories and theory-laden practices for a life of dignity for all, healing of wounds for all, justice for all, freedom for all, and equality for all, especially for the most vulnerable. The church speaks prophetically in at least five modes, namely envisioning of a new church and society of dignity, healing, justice, freedom and equality;criticising where this vision is betrayed by church and society;telling of stories of despair and disappointment, as well as stories of hope and victory;technical and scientific analysis of complex concerns and challenges, and participation in public policy-formation processes.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.18820/23099089/actat.sup31.12
S. Knecht
The resource of spirituality is often neglected in decisionmaking processes in Christian churches. This problem has also been recognised in the Salvation Army. In response, the so-called “Faith-Based Facilitation” (FBF) process was developed and introduced in 2010. A characteristic of the FBF process is the concept of the “Kairos experiences” as a key spiritual aspect. In the literature on the FBF process, there is a paucity of works on the nature of the “Kairos experiences”, although a great emphasis is placed thereon. Thus, the problem arises as to how to deal with this phenomenon in practice. This article examines the concept “Kairos”, by drawing on the philosophical and theological literature, with the aim of formulating a theological rationale for the FBF process and providing methodological aids in 1 This article develops further insights from a University of South Africa Masters dissertation titled Die Rolle der Spiritualität in Entscheidungsfindungsprozessen: Der “Faith-Based Facilitation”-Prozess der Heilsarmee. Acta Theologica Supplementum 31 2021 195 dealing with the “Kairos experiences”. I argue that the disposition and spiritual competence of those involved are key to the integration of spirituality in decision-making processes.
在基督教会的决策过程中，灵性的资源常常被忽视。救世军也认识到了这个问题。作为回应，所谓的“基于信仰的促进”(FBF)过程在2010年被开发和引入。FBF过程的一个特点是“凯洛斯体验”的概念是一个关键的精神方面。在关于FBF过程的文献中，关于“凯洛人经验”的性质的作品很少，尽管这方面得到了很大的重视。因此，在实践中如何处理这一现象就产生了问题。本文通过借鉴哲学和神学文献来研究“Kairos”概念，目的是为FBF过程制定神学基础，并在1中提供方法上的帮助。本文进一步发展了南非大学硕士论文Die Rolle der Spiritualität in Entscheidungsfindungsprozessen: der“基于信仰的促进”-Prozess der Heilsarmee的见解。神学学报增刊31 2021 195处理“凯洛斯的经验”。我认为，相关人员的性格和精神能力是在决策过程中整合精神的关键。
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.18820/23099089/actat.sup32.12
D. Human
This contribution explains that the re-interpretation of theological motifs or ideas leads to transforming theology and religion. This phenomenon takes place within the corpus and boundaries of the Old Testament. Inner-biblical debate or “later” texts that re-interpret “earlier” texts underscore this process and confirm a transformed theology that is relevant and life-giving for the “new” or “later” context. Because these processes happened within the range of a long history of development of Old Testament literature, the article first discusses important hermeneutical realities or directives for Old Testament interpretation. It then mentions a few approaches to, and challenges of interpreting Old Testament literature. Finally, it briefly portrays how the book of Ruth re-interpreted certain pentateuchal texts as an act of transforming theology.
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