scholarly journals Political Theology as critical theology

2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanya Van Wyk
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Political Theology ◽  
South African Context ◽  
African Continent ◽  
The South ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
The World ◽  
African Context ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Critical Theology

This article attempts to draw the scope and content of contemporary Political Theology, based on a review of the 2013 publication titled, Political Theology: Contemporary challenges and future directions, edited by Francis Schüssler Fiorenza, Klaus Tanner and Michael Welker. The book is a collection of contributions which explore the contemporary content and potential future of the subject discipline. ‘Political Theology’ as critical theology and as a ‘theology with its face towards the world’ is committed to ‘justice, peace and the integrity of creation’ and is multifaceted. It represents a discipline with which theologians reflect on political-theological objectives across continents and paradigms. The article concludes with a brief investigation of the implications of insights offered in the book for the South African context (as part of the African continent).

Exploring the world of paramedics in the South African context.

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Cosser ◽  
Madri Jansen van Rensburg ◽  
Johan Nieuwoudt ◽  
Kgomotso Ratlhagane ◽  
Kobus van Staden ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
South African Context ◽  
The South ◽  
The World ◽  
African Context

scholarly journals Mission in the new South Africa. Need for a renewed enquiry

2000 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-114
Author(s):  
J. J. Kritzinger
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
New South ◽  
South African Context ◽  
The South ◽  
The World ◽  
African Context ◽  
New Situation ◽  
The Church

Mission includes all that the church is called by its Lord to do in continuation of His mission in the world. The church in her mission is interested in the whole of people’s lives and needs. The church is also called to mission in the South African context. Do we know this context? Do we understand the challenges of this context? A project of two decades ago on the unfinished task of mission in South Africa brought many relevant insights to the force, but since then the context has changed dramatically. This article touches on some aspects of the new situation, and provides outlines for the launch of a new enquiry.

The Revised Two-Factor Motivation to Lead Instrument

2021 ◽  
pp. 125-139
Author(s):  
Karen Cerff
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Servant Leadership ◽  
South African ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
South African Context ◽  
The South ◽  
Motivation To Lead ◽  
The World ◽  
African Context

The study on which this chapter is based investigated whether there is a connection between hope, self-efficacy, and motivation to lead (MTL) in the development of leaders in South Africa. The data collected for the MTL component were gathered using a revised two-factor model of Chan's MTL instrument, comprising the leading for self-benefit factor (MTL-S) and the group-centered leading factor (MTL-G). The revised two-factor model of Chan's MTL instrument is a meaningful redevelopment of Chan's MTL instrument for the South African context and potentially elsewhere in the world. The MTL-G, which comprises seven items, is of particular interest as a scale for measuring altruism. This research makes a contribution to servant leadership by establishing the connection between MTL-G and altruism, and adds a valuable dimension to the research of Patterson. More recent research has emerged, indicating MTL instrument adaptions and revisions in different contexts.

“I am an African”: A Philosophical Enquiry of Identity and Culture

2021 ◽  
pp. 002193472110478
Author(s):  
Joel Mokhoathi
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
South African Context ◽  
The South ◽  
Philosophical Approach ◽  
African Identity ◽  
The Public ◽  
African Renaissance ◽  
African Context ◽  
The Subject

With the public frenzy over Thabo Mbeki’s speech, “I am an African” that was delivered in 1996, South Africa has since become a subject of debate as to who is an African and what constitutes as African. This has been going on for almost two decades and a half now. Mbeki’s speech appears to have evoked solemn questions relating to the issues of identity and culture. Subsequent to that speech, the South African public began to question what it meant to be African. The central point of enquiry was: what makes one an African? Is it the color of their skin? Their citizenship? Or is one merely an African because others regard him or her as such? These and many other questions arise when one touches upon the subject of Africans. These perplexing questions, however, are not only unique to the South African context; they apply, to some extent, to the general continent of Africa. With talks and debates about African renaissance, decoloniality, and indigenization, the question of African identity and culture resurfaces. Here, the discussion hubs around the issue of African persona and what it means to be authentically African. By means of document analysis, this paper critically employs a philosophical approach in order to grapple with the subject of identity and culture. This is done through a systematic discussion of the following facets: (a) history, (b) identity, and (c) culture. These three facets are therefore critically engaged in order to establish what constitute an African and what can be characterized as an African identity.

The popular sovereignty continuum: Civil and political society in contemporary South Africa

2020 ◽  
pp. 239965442094151
Author(s):  
Brandon M Finn
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
South African ◽  
Popular Sovereignty ◽  
Political Society ◽  
South African Context ◽  
The South ◽  
Top Down ◽  
The World ◽  
African Context

Partha Chatterjee’s work on postcolonial politics articulates the limits of participation and governance in contexts of stark inequality. Chatterjee’s argument can be stretched within the South African context of protest and political contestation as it demonstrates that civil and political societies are fluid, political categories. From student to shack dweller movements, political society in South Africa disrupts top-down, dichotomous notions of ‘administration’ or ‘governance’. I outline that the interactions between Chatterjee’s political and civil society overlap with one another, but importantly, that this overlap determines the broader, shifting continuum of popular sovereignty that these two fields act within. Ordinary ‘populations’ of political society are able to infiltrate the ‘sanitized walls’ of civil society, contexts in which ‘political society’ sometimes draws on the language of rights and institutions such as the courts as well as practices of mobilization and disruption. South African mobilization illustrates the usefulness of engaging with the inequalities of governance via categories of civil and political society, but also shows that these are complicated and contested fields within the country’s political and democratic framework. We cannot understand the notions of either political or civil society without contextualizing these processes within a framework that allows for the shifting continuum, and acknowledgement of the possibility of the existence of popular sovereignty. It is this broader, structural categorization, within which the forces of political and civil society fluidly interact that we need to conceptualize popular sovereignty in Chatterjee’s description of ‘most of the world.’

scholarly journals Die Schwarze Theologie von Allan Boesak – mit besonderem Hinweis auf seine Anthropologie

2003 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
J.H. Van Wyk
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Political Theology ◽  
Black Theology ◽  
The Political ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
South African Context ◽  
The South ◽  
African Context ◽  
Theology Of Liberation

The Black Theology of Allan Boesak – with specific reference to his anthropologyAllan Boesak is a well known theologian and political reformer in the South African context. In this article the author scrutinises the political theology of Boesak in general and his anthropology in particular. The last section of the article is devoted to an assessment of Boesak's contribution as developed within the broader context of the theology of liberation. The investigation clarifies the fact that, although Boesak represents a more moderate kind of liberation theology, serious questions could still be raised about some of his insights.

Exploring recidivism in the South African context.

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Belinda Bedell ◽  
Nicholas Challis ◽  
Charl Cilliers ◽  
Joy Cole ◽  
Wendy Corry ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
South African Context ◽  
The South ◽  
African Context
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