2 research outputs found
Exodus and black theology : an investigation
Black Theology uses the Exodus episode as its locus classicus for
its view of God' s preferential option for the poor and the
oppressed. The purpose of the dissertation is to determine to
what extent Black Theology is scripturally justified in doing so.
The investigation concludes that -
i) the use of a praxis 'claimed to be Christian' in the
hermeneutic of Black Theology, becomes questionable and
unconvincing in that there is an illogical vacillation
between a self-determined praxis-horizon and a text-horizon
and that,
ii ) when some aspects of Black Theology are measured using
constraint criteria suggested by Kelsey, Black Theology
exceeds the limits of acceptability by taking the exodus
event as the locus classicus for the slogan that God is
always on the side of the poor and the oppressed.
While for some Black theology is indeed an important new stage
in theologizing it must however be remembered that liberation
theology, in Africa at least, is still in its infancy.Biblical and Ancient StudiesTh.M. (Old Testament
Black theology and apartheid theology : an investigation into epitheton theology
Black theology and apartheid theology are theologies making
use of an epitheton. The use to which the epitheton is put in
these theologies is of crucial importance, that is, they are
couplet theologies being used in a subjective genitive fashion.
The question is whether the couplet becomes a theology
of/concerning the epitheton or is it used in an objective
genitive fashion.
When the epitheton is used in the objective genitive sense it
of necessity has to generate an epistemological break in order
to distinguish it from orthodox theology. This in turn necessitates a conscientisation of a contextually predicated theology The theology becomes reductive. In this way an epitheton
theology forming part of a couplet becomes attenuated and diverges from orthodox theology in the construction of its theology. This can lead to the espousal of heretical teachings.
Conclusion:
The conclusion arrived at is
the objective genitive sense,
that an epitheton theology, in
for the purpose of advancing a
particular secular base or pseudo-theological base for Christian
society, once it has gained a life of its own, will lead
to heresy unless erroneous or sinful teachings are confessed
and repented of.Philosophy, Practical and Systematic TheologyD. Th. (Systematic Theology