7 research outputs found
‘A pretty decent sort of bloke’ : towards the quest for an Australian Jesus
From many Aboriginal elders, such as Tjangika Napaltjani, Bob Williams and Djiniyini
Gondarra, to painters, such as Arthur Boyd, Pro Hart and John Forrester-Clack, from
historians, such as Manning Clark, and poets, such as Maureen Watson, Francis Webb and
Henry Lawson, to celebrated novelists, such as Joseph Furphy, Patrick White and Tim Winton,
the figure of Jesus has occupied an endearing and idiosyncratic place in the Australian
imagination. It is evidence enough that ‘Australians have been anticlerical and antichurch,
but rarely antiJesus’ (Piggin 2000:163). But which Jesus? In what follows, I seek to listen to
what some Australians make of Jesus, and to consider some theological implications of their
contributions for the enduring quest for an Australian JesusDr Goroncy is participating in
the research project, ‘Gender
Studies and Practical
Theology Theory Formation’,
directed by Prof. Dr Yolanda
Dreyer, Department of
Practical Theology, Faculty of
Theology, University of
Pretoria.HTS 75th Anniversary Maake Masango Dedication.http://www.hts.org.zaam2020Practical Theolog
Social identity, ethnicity and the gospel of reconciliation
Rev. Dr Jason Goroncy is
participating as research
fellow with Prof. Dr Yolanda
Dreyer, Faculty of Theology,
University of Pretoria,
South Africa.This article attends to the relationship between our ethnic, social and cultural identities, and
the creation of the new communal identity embodied in the Christian community. Drawing
upon six New Testament texts – Ephesians 2:11–22; Galatians 3:27–28, 1 Corinthians 7:17–24
and 10:17, 1 Peter 2:9–11 and Revelation 21:24–26 – it is argued that the creation of a new and
prime identity in Christ does not abrogate other creaturely identities, even as it calls for the
removal of such as boundary markers. Catholicity, in other words, is intrinsically related to the
most radical particularity, and demands an ongoing work of discernment and of judgement
vis-Ã -vis the gospel itself. Those baptised into Christ are now to live in the reality of Christ who
is both the boundary and centre of their existence, a boundary which includes all humanity in
its cultural, ethnic, gendered, social and historical particularities.http://www.hts.org.zaam2013mn201