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Towards a Kairos theology

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies
This article proposes that the theology of Moltmann – particularly his reflections on time, eschatology and the Trinity – offers profound resources for reimagining Kairos theology in the present.
Henco Van Der Westhuizen
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Kairos and Carnival: Mikhail Bakhtin’s Rhetorical and Ethical Christian Vision

Religions, 2018
The term kairos has been used to mean, alternatively, right timing or proportion in Ancient Greek rhetoric, by Jesus to refer to the Christian eschaton and by Paul Tillich and modern liberation theologians to refer to the breakthrough of the divine into ...
Ian Bekker
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The Joint Working Group, the Roman Catholic Church, and the World Council of Churches

The Ecumenical Review, Volume 75, Issue 3-4, Page 389-408, July–October 2023., 2023
Abstract Under the title Walking, Praying, and Working Together: An Ecumenical Pilgrimage, the Joint Working Group (JWG) of the World Council of Churches (WCC) and the Roman Catholic Church (RCC) offered its tenth report to the most recent WCC assembly in Karlsruhe in 2022. This report recounts many instances of cooperation between the RCC and the WCC.
Annemarie C. Mayer
wiley   +1 more source

A teleological interpretation of Bonhoeffer's concept of “A World Come of Age”

Dialog, Volume 62, Issue 2, Page 216-227, Summer 2023., 2023
Abstract This paper explores Dietrich Bonhoeffer's concept of “the nonreligious interpretation of biblical terms in a world come of age,” best known from his Letters and Papers from Prison (LPP). As a case study of its possibilities, we will survey South African thinkers who have explored the concept in rapidly changing contexts.
Paul Dankers, Christian W. Willerton
wiley   +1 more source

“And Yet It Moves”: Dream and Reality of the Ecumenical Movement

The Ecumenical Review, Volume 75, Issue 1, Page 16-32, January 2023., 2023
Abstract This article offers an overview of the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches, which met in Karlsruhe, Germany, in August–September 2022. It sets out the context in which the assembly took place, the main issues discussed, and perspectives for the future.
Dietrich Werner
wiley   +1 more source

Kairos moments and prophetic witness: Towards a prophetic ecclesiology

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2016
The thirtieth anniversary of the publication of the Kairos Document was celebrated in August 2015. This was the most radical of several theological declarations issued by Christians during the struggle against apartheid.
John De Gruchy
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Vulnerable by Design

The Ecumenical Review, Volume 74, Issue 4, Page 527-540, October 2022., 2022
Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic plunged vulnerable populations and the church in South Africa into a crisis. This article argues that the situation of poor and vulnerable people is not an accident but a deliberate design of the powerful and is therefore closely linked to South Africa’s political past.
Eugene Fortein
wiley   +1 more source

The rebirth of Kairos theology and its implications for public theology and citizenship in South Africa

Missionalia: Southern African Journal of Missiology, 2015
This article explores the relationship between kairos theology and public theology, placing a particular emphasis on kairos aspects such as contextuality, criticality and change.
Le Bruyns, CLint
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Black Theologies of Liberation

The Ecumenical Review, Volume 74, Issue 4, Page 503-514, October 2022., 2022
Abstract This article introduces this thematic issue of The Ecumenical Review, which originates from a colloquium hosted at the University of the Western Cape on Black theologies. Our aim is to propose a set of theological frames through which to consider the 11 articles presented here, as well as the study of Black theology in general. We propose that
Sarojini Nadar, Demaine Solomons
wiley   +1 more source

Endangerment and lament in the Covid Pandemic: Ways out of two theological impasses

Dialog, Volume 60, Issue 4, Page 360-368, December 2021., 2021
Abstract The essay analyses two causes of the eloquent silence of many churches during Corona: That it has become unthinkable for many theologians that while humans pose a threat to nature, nature itself threatens humans in turn. In addition, a conception of God that assumes only the suffering companion and human acts of solidarity blocks the ...
Günter Thomas
wiley   +1 more source