Browsing AT 2016 Supplementum 24 by Title
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African Biblical hermeneutics on the threshold? Appraisal and wayforward
(Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2016)What appears to be African Biblical Hermeneutics often refers to the geographical location of the authors rather than the content. There always appears to be something new on the horizon, but the colonial umbilical cord ... -
Allan Boesak: innocence and the struggle for humanity
(Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2016)As a Black theologian and political activist, deeply committed to the cause of freedom, reconciliation and justice in South Africa, Allan Boesak has embraced the philosophy of Black consciousness as a legitimate moral-political ... -
The Black Church as a caring community for the poor: Southern Synod as investigative centre
(Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2016)In this article, the researcher discusses first the Black Church in relation to God, one another, and the world and, secondly, the blackness of the URCSA reflected in terms of her membership’s pigmentation and her identity ... -
Black soteriology: the physiological and ontological process
(Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2016)The Black experience that is historical and continues in post-oppressive and racist regimes proves to be problematic for Black existence. This is particularly so when one considers that the freedom posed by colourlessness ... -
Decolonising Biblical hermeneutics in the (South) African context
(Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2016)The recognition of social location as a heuristic device in biblical hermeneutics does not necessarily equate to the production of radical and alternative knowledge. From our own social location (Africa), biblical ... -
Does Black theology have a role to play in the democratic South Africa?
(Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2016)Black theology was conceived in South Africa in the mid-1960s and flourished from the 1970s, when White supremacy perpetuated by the apartheid state was at its zenith. The struggle against apartheid was aimed mainly at ... -
Liberative Black theology: a case study of race in theological education
(Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2016)Our history in South Africa has shown that we are largely segregated and unequal, as race continues to define the opportunities of many. Post-apartheid interactions continue to be troubling in racial terms. The new interracial ... -
The prevalence of women sexual locking in a gender violence context - a pastoral perspective
(Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2016)Marriage is highly regarded in Africa. Many taboos and rituals were put in place to ensure that marriage endures for as long as the couple lives. Any attack on marriage was rendered as a great enemy that deserved to be ... -
Reading Isaiah 58 in conversation with I. J. Mosala: an African liberationist approach
(Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2016)This paper sets out to draw on, and simultaneously depart from Mosala’s Black biblical hermeneutic of liberation in order to navigate liberating possibilities that Isaiah 58 could offer to the oppressed Black people in ... -
Reading Philemon with Onesimus in the postcolony: exploring a postcolonial runaway slave hypothesis
(Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2016)For centuries, the Philemon narrative has been read as the story of a slave that ran away from his master and must now be reconciled to him, and continue their master-slave relationship. Reading the narrative through a ... -
Reclaiming our Black bodies: reflections on a portrait of Sarah (Saartjie) Baartman and the destruction of Black bodies by the state
(Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2016)The parading of the nude body of Sarah Baartman by the British colonisers led England and France to racially categorise her as a subhuman. Her Black body was viewed as something that can be violated, exploited, destructed, ... -
Who calls the shots in Naomi's life? Reading the Naomi-Ruth story within the African religio-cultural context
(Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2016)In Africa, the whole are religious and the dead are believed to be actively involved in the daily affairs of the people. Such a worldview, in which the Sacred Other, the living and the (living) dead formed an integral ...