عنوان

A Case for a Transforming Christology in South Africa

شماره

LA117151

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

A Case for a Transforming Christology in South Africa

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Jakobus (Koos) M. Vorster

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

In the South African discourse on the political relevance of Jesus Christ, a vast array of conceptions of Jesus emerged over the years of the struggle, the liberation, the quest for spirituality and the theology of reconstruction. This discourse has taken place within the framework of the two broad historical movements of a "high" and a "low" Christology. In a recent thought provoking and informative article Mouton & Smit investigated four of the dominant discourses on Jesus in contemporary South Africa. They surveyed the discussions of Jesus in the popular news and newspaper debates, academic circles and scholarship, the worship and spirituality of congregations and believers, and public opinion about social and political life. After reviewing a huge corpus of South African literature on concepts of Jesus they ask the question whether Jesus was lost in translation in the South Africa of recent times. This article is an attempt to take the argument further. First of all, the investigation will provide another outline of the Christologies in the recent South African discourse within the broad framework of a "high" and a "low" Christology. The concepts under consideration are the spiritual Jesus, the political Jesus and the historical Jesus. Then a case will be made for the transforming Jesus of the Kingdom of God as a corrective on the Christologies of Apartheid, the liberation struggle and the modern-day post-modern projections of the historical Jesus. In the South African discourse on the political relevance of Jesus Christ, a vast array of conceptions of Jesus emerged over the years of the struggle, the liberation, the quest for spirituality and the theology of reconstruction. This discourse has taken place within the framework of the two broad historical movements of a "high" and a "low" Christology. In a recent thought provoking and informative article Mouton & Smit investigated four of the dominant discourses on Jesus in contemporary South Africa. They surveyed the discussions of Jesus in the popular news and newspaper debates, academic circles and scholarship, the worship and spirituality of congregations and believers, and public opinion about social and political life. After reviewing a huge corpus of South African literature on concepts of Jesus they ask the question whether Jesus was lost in translation in the South Africa of recent times. This article is an attempt to take the argument further. First of all, the investigation will provide another outline of the Christologies in the recent South African discourse within the broad framework of a "high" and a "low" Christology. The concepts under consideration are the spiritual Jesus, the political Jesus and the historical Jesus. Then a case will be made for the transforming Jesus of the Kingdom of God as a corrective on the Christologies of Apartheid, the liberation struggle and the modern-day post-modern projections of the historical Jesus.

تاريخ نشر

2013

توصيف ظاهري

310-326

عنوان

Journal of Reformed Theology

شماره جلد

7/3

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1569-7312

اصطلاح موضوعی

Christology

اصطلاح موضوعی

cosmological

اصطلاح موضوعی

historical Jesus

اصطلاح موضوعی

Kingdom of God

اصطلاح موضوعی

political Jesus

اصطلاح موضوعی

spiritual Jesus

اصطلاح موضوعی

transforming Jesus

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Jakobus (Koos) M. Vorster

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15697312-12341313

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y