‘Telling a past, dreaming a future’ (Walter Brueggemann) - Die essensie van die narratiewe pastoraat

“Telling a past, dreaming a future” - The essence of narrative pastoral counsellingThe article examines the possibilities of negotiating the double movement created by living towards the future and dreaming out of the future into the present. Story telling in the pastoral environment is suggested as a means of bringing together the past and the expected future. A circular approach to time can help immensely by bringing together past and future in a meaningful way. This becomes possible in the pastoral environment where there is real understanding between pastor and client through thorough communication and the reframing of the past. The importance of language in understanding and the transformative power of narrative are stressed, as well as Christian hope as the most fundamental way of finding meaning out of the future into the present.

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Dimensi Edukatif pada Kisah-Kisah Al-Qur'an

SUHUF ◽

10.22548/shf.v3i1.80 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 69-83

Author(s):

Novita Siswayanti

Keyword(s):

Teaching Methods ◽

Religious Values ◽

Human Beings ◽

Learning Materials ◽

Transformative Power ◽

Amount Of Information ◽

Vast Amount ◽

The Past ◽

Religious Text ◽

The Future

The stories in Qur'an are Allahâ€™s decrees which convey more beau-tiful values beyond any religious text ever written. It is the holiest scripture and is writtenÂ in a wonderful, understandable, and attract-ive language humbly conveying a vast amount of information about life and events that happened in the past. Itâ€™s aim is to be an object of reflection for human beings living in this age and the future. Even more so, the stories in Al-Qur'an also entail an educative function providing learning materials,Â and teaching methods, regarding the transformative power of Islam and the internalization of true religious values.

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TRANSFORMING THE LEGACY OF LAND DISPOSSESSION: ARCHIVE, ORALITY AND HEALING IN THE CONTEXT OF SAN STORY-TELLING

Oral History Journal of South Africa ◽

10.25159/2309-5792/332 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 44-54

Author(s):

Marlene Winberg

Keyword(s):

Oral History ◽

Digital Technology ◽

Story Telling ◽

The Past ◽

Land Dispossession ◽

The Future ◽

Archival Documents ◽

Northern Cape

This article examines ways in which we engage the archive and orality to negotiate traumatic pasts in order to transform the legacy of land dispossession. It hones in on the silences of the archive and asks how we draw the inheritance of archival documents and materials into dialogue with living orality and places in the landscape. Who is remembering knowledges and meaning in the landscape of the Northern Cape and how is this being done against the poignant backdrop of the losses resulting from dispossession? How does inter-generational dialogue become an agent in shaping the inheritance of the future? Given the complexity of history and our reading of the past, what does it mean to become a good ancestor? What role could digital technology play in re-shaping identity and heritage among the storytellers, teenagers, ritual specialists and others who populate the region? This study examines the complex tensions between these questions in the context of specific oral history and storytelling projects that took place in previously dispossessed communities in the Northern Cape between 2003 and 2013.

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Mechanisms of Europeanisation and Compliance in Judicial Politics: Understanding the Past and Anticipating the Future

Polish Political Science Review ◽

10.1515/ppsr-2015-0005 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 57-72 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Ramona Coman

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

Judicial Politics ◽

Economic Policies ◽

The European Union ◽

Policy Area ◽

Transformative Power ◽

The Past ◽

The Future ◽

Recent Developments

Abstract Recent developments in Hungarian constitutional and judicial politics have given impetus to question not only the outcomes of democratisation and Europeanisation, but also the efficacy of the European Union’s compliance mechanisms. In 2010, Hungary, one of the forerunners in building democracy made the headlines with Fidesz’s attempts at adopting a new Constitution and implementing cardinal laws along with controversial institutional, cultural, religious, moral and socio-economic policies. This article attempts to depict the transformative power of the European Union within a sensitive policy area which touches upon States’ pouvoris régaliens: the independence of the judiciary.

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Archipelago of Memories

The Violent Image ◽

10.1093/oso/9780197511671.003.0003 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 53-80

Author(s):

Neville Bolt

Keyword(s):

Collective Memory ◽

State Control ◽

Story Telling ◽

Individual Group ◽

Global Networks ◽

The Past ◽

The Future

Chapter 2 looks at how individual, group, and collective memory construction occurs in societies; how memories are blended into a form of story-telling that seeks to overturn the hegemonic account of history on which states are built and which is propagated through media outlets over generations. A constant process of reshaping and retelling the insurgent story challenges state control of history. Insurgents seeks to control the past, to take ownership of the present, in order to legitimize their right to the future. Propaganda of the Deed’s violent and heroic acts that travel as electronic images through global networks resonate with the constructed past––a past structured around moments of suffering, grievance, and atrocity.

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Neutrality and Meaning

10.1093/oso/9780198812845.003.0011 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Meghan Sullivan

Keyword(s):

Meaning In Life ◽

The Past ◽

Finding Meaning ◽

The World ◽

The Future

This chapter considers and rejects the Temporal Argument for Nihilism: (1)The meaningfulness of an activity, at a time, depends upon it making a permanent difference in the world. (2) Nothing we can do will make a permanent difference in the world. (C) Nothing we can do has meaning now. Thechapter rejects (1) and proposes a way of finding meaning in life by appealing to temporal neutrality. First the chapter considers cases from Scheffler and Shiffrin which motivate (1). Next, the chapter considers two strategies for blocking this result: subjectivism about meaning and heavenly optimism. Both strategies are found wanting. However, if we embrace temporal neutrality then events can have meaning through connections with events either in the future or in the past. The chapter concludes with a temporally neutral response to nihilism.

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