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Journal articles on the topic "Black theology. Liberation theology. South Africa"

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Crawford, Robert G. "Black Liberation Theology in South Africa and Liberation Theology in Latin America." Expository Times 101, no. 11 (August 1990): 329–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001452469010101104.

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Koopman, Nico. "Reformed Theology in South Africa: Black? Liberating? Public?" Journal of Reformed Theology 1, no. 3 (2007): 294–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156973107x250987.

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AbstractThis paper discusses the inherent public nature of Reformed theology and demonstrates how Reformed theology informed and enriched the discourses of black theology, liberation theology, and public theology in both apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa. Black, Reformed theologian Allan Boesak emphasized the reign of the Triune God in all walks of life. Reformed theologian John De Gruchy cherished the central notion in Reformed theology that God especially identifies with the poor, wronged, and most vulnerable. Finally, Reformed theologian Dirkie Smit demonstrates how Reformed theology assists the development of public theology by focusing, on the one hand, on the rich Christian confessional tradition, and on the other hand, by participating in pluralistic public debates on the basis of this rich tradition. Based on this discussion, some lessons for the development of public theology from the Reformed tradition are spelled out.

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Chimhanda, FH. "BLACK THEOLOGY OF SOUTH AFRICA AND THE LIBERATION PARADIGM." Scriptura 105 (June 12, 2013): 434. http://dx.doi.org/10.7833/105-0-163.

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Maphai, Vincent T., and Dwight N. Hopkins. "Black Theology-USA and South Africa: Politics, Culture and Liberation." African Studies Review 34, no. 1 (April 1991): 117. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/524258.

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Boesak, Allan. "Black Theology and the Struggle for Liberation in South Africa." Monthly Review 36, no. 3 (July 16, 1988): 127. http://dx.doi.org/10.14452/mr-036-03-1984-07_15.

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Thomas, Norman. "Authentic Indigenization and Liberation in the Theology of Canaan Sodindo Banana (1936–2003) of Zimbabwe." Mission Studies 22, no. 2 (2005): 319–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157338305774756540.

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AbstractAfrican theologies are most often classified as either theologies of inculturation, or of liberation. Canaan Banana was one of few African theologians who combine authentic indigenization and liberation in their thought. The author, who knew Rev. Banana personally, based his analysis on Banana's writings and on interpretations by other scholars. Banana's theology was influenced by his ecumenical leadership as a Methodist minister, studies in the United States, involvement in the liberation struggle, and national leadership as the first President of Zimbabwe. Banana's liberation perspective, in contrast to those of most South African black theologians, dealt with issues of class rather than of color. His political theology, articulated when he was president of Zimbabwe, focused on the relation of socialism and Christianity. For him liberation involved struggle and even armed struggle. In his last decade former President Banana began to articulate a prophetic "Combat Theology." Banana stimulated a heated discussion on biblical hermeneutics in southern Africa by proposing deletion from the Bible of passages used to justify oppression. Believing that God is revealed also through creation and African culture, he found creative myths and images of Jesus in the cultures of his own Shona and Ndebele peoples. His contribution is a theology that can help Christianity to be both indigenous and socially relevant in 21st century Africa.

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Parratt, John. "Marxism, Black Theology, and the South African Dilemma." Journal of Modern African Studies 28, no. 3 (September 1990): 527–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x00054690.

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Alfredo Fierro was probably going too far when he characterised modern political theology as ‘operating under the sign of Marx’. Nevertheless, ever since Gustavo Gutierrez dropped the bombshell of ‘Liberation Theology’ on the playground of western theologians, it is clear that Marxism cannot be ignored in any relevant twentieth-century explication of the Christian faith. Gutierrez focused in particular upon two aspects of Marx's thought: the action of man in human history, and the transformation of the world in the interests of the oppressed. These are perhaps also the most important aspects of Marxism for an understanding of recent developments in South African theology today.

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Solomons and Klaasen. "Liberation or Reconstruction? Black Theology as Unfinished Business in South Africa." Journal of Africana Religions 7, no. 2 (2019): 255. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/jafrireli.7.2.2019.0255.

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Tienou, Tite. "Book Review: Black Theology USA and South Africa: Politics, Culture, and Liberation." International Bulletin of Missionary Research 16, no. 1 (January 1992): 39–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/239693939201600118.

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Smith, J. Alfred. "Book Review: Black Theology U.S.A. and South Africa: Politics, Culture, and Liberation." Review & Expositor 87, no. 4 (December 1990): 657. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/003463739008700435.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Black theology. Liberation theology. South Africa"

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Pillay, Hendrick. "Black theology and black consciousness towards developing a black theological hermeneutic for South Africa /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.

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Jacob, Emmanuel Manikum. "A South African theology of liberation : retrospect and prospect." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.360034.

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Vellem, Vuyani S. "The symbol of liberation in South African public life a black theological perspective /." Pretoria : [S.n.], 2007. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-10232007-161813/.

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Solomons, Demaine Jason. "Liberation or Reconstruction : A critical survey on the relevance of Black theology in light of the emergence of Reconstruction theology." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2010. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_9485_1318849530.

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The purpose of this investigation is to discuss the relevance of Black theology in light of the emergence of reconstruction theology. It offers a critical survey of a range of contributions on this issue, questioning whether scholars who have used Black theology as a form of self description should shift emphasis, from the paradigm of liberation to reconstruction. The significance of this study has to be understood within the context of the proposal to redirect African theological initiatives from liberation theologies to reconstruction theology. The basis for this call was the end of apartheid in South Africa, which signalled the independence of all countries on the African continent.

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Chemengich, Emmanuel. "Ideology and interpretation in Luke 1-2 a critique of Itumeleng Mosala's black materialist hermeneutics for (South) Africa /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Rodriguez, Miguel. "Confrontational Christianity: Contextual Theology and Its Radicalization of the South African Anti-Apartheid Church Struggle." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5466.

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This paper is intended to analyze the contributions of Contextual Theology and Contextual theologians to dismantling the South African apartheid system. It is intended to demonstrate that the South African churches failed to effectively politicize and radicalize to confront the government until the advent of Contextual Theology in South Africa. Contextual Theology provided the Christian clergy the theological justification to unite with anti-apartheid organizations. Its very concept of working with the poor and oppressed helped the churches gain favor with the black masses that were mostly Christian. Its borrowing from Marxist philosophy appealed to anti-apartheid organizations. Additionally, Contextual theologians, who were primarily black, began filling prominent leadership roles in their churches and within the ecumenical organizations. They were mainly responsible for radicalizing the churches and the ecumenical organizations. They also filled an important anti-apartheid political leadership vacuum when most political leaders were banned, jailed, or killed.
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Mpetsheni, Lungile. "Ubuntu - a soteriological ethic for an effaced umntu in a post 1994 South Africa : a black theology of liberation perspective." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/75269.

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This thesis sets out to explore Ubuntu as a soteriological ethic for the liberation of an effaced umntu in the post 1994 South Africa from a black perspective. It is conducted from the perspective of Black Theology of Liberation and it sets out on the premise that Ubuntu is consonant with the objectives of Black Theology of Liberation. It is theoretically informed by Ramose’s position of Ubuntu as African philosophy and Dussel’s theory of modernity as an extension of the European influence to the other parts of the world. The effects of that extension of the European influence have been dire to the peoples who were colonised and the effacement of umntu has been one of the consequences of that influence. The post 1994 South African society still bleeds from the effects of that dominance, which reached its zenith during colonial and apartheid periods. Those periods were characterized by acts of ukunxaxha (hamartos – missing the mark) and an assault to the image of God. The 1994 transition became a change of face politically, but the socioeconomic conditions are still averse to the nonpersons. Umntu continues to be undermined, marginalised and denigrated. Umntu is wounded and broken. The study explores Ubuntu as a strive towards wholeness and further explores ukunxaxha, guided by the Ubuntu philosophy from the perspective of Black Theology of Liberation. In its findings, the study upholds Ubuntu as an African philosophy and as a progression towards wholeness. The study discovers that umntu has been effaced under the influence of modernity in its various manifestations from context to context, which in South Africa were colonialism, apartheid and current wave of globalisation, corruption and greed. The study proposes Ubuntu as a liberative soteriological ethic where umntu lives in harmony in a three-dimensional relationship of the living dead, the living and the yet-to-be-born, another aspect of wholeness. Ubuntu fosters communalism, interconnectedness and interdependence. The fulcrum of Ubuntu is umntu ngumntu ngabantu. The epistemology of Black Consciousness and Black Theology of Liberation shows that Ubuntu remains a relevant soteriological ethic for the liberation of umntu. Ubuntu buyahlangula, buyakhulula. The study, thus, proposes a new community of Ubuntu that will promote human dignity, equality, peace, justice and prosperity. That community is based on the three pillars, namely just socioeconomic order, unshackled church and academia. That is a revolution. The Accra Confession provides the basis to deal with the empire towards the establishment of a just socioeconomic order. There is need to lift the poor for them to stand up against empire in all its manifestations. There is need for decolonising the mind in all the three spheres – society, church and academia. Black Theology of liberation has a big role to play in this venture. The expropriation of land should be done with the main motive being to promote the dignity of the effaced people.
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Padgett, Keith Wagner. "Sufferation, Han, and the Blues: Collective Oppression in Artistic and Theological Expression." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1276627655.

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Ritter, Sabine A. "Black theology in South Africa a case study /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1996. http://www.tren.com.

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Mosala, Itumeleng J. "Biblical hermeneutics and black theology in South Africa." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8395.

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This study seeks to investigate the use of the Bible in black theology in South Africa. It begins by judging the extent to which black theology's use of the Bible represents a clear theoretical break with white western theology. The use of concepts like the “Word of God", “the universality of the Universality of the Gospel", “the particularity of the Gospel”, “oppression and oppressors" and "the God of the Oppressed" in black theology, reveals a captivity to the ideological assumptions of white theology. It is argued that this captivity accounts for the current political impotence of black theology as a cultural weapon of struggle, especially in relation to the black working class struggle for iberation. Thus while it has been effective in fashioning a vision on liberation and providing a trenchant critique of white theology, it lacks the theoretical wherewithal to appropriate the Bible in a genuinely liberative way. This weakness is illustrated in the thesis with a critical appraisal of the biblical hermeneutics of especialiy two of the most outstanding and outspoken black theological activists in South Africa, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Dr Allan Boesak. The fundamental weakness of the biblical hermeneutics of black theology is attributed to the social class position and commitments of black theologians. Occupying and committed to a petit bourgeois position within the racist capitalist social formation of South Africa, they share the idealist, theoretical framework dominant in this class. Thus in order for black theology to become an effective weapon of struggle for the majority of the oppressed black people, it must be rooted in the working class history and culture of these people. Such a base in the experiences of the oppressed necessitates the use of a materialist method that analyses the concrete struggles of human beings in black history and culture to produce and reproduce their lives within definite historical and material conditions. The thesis then undertakes such an analysis of the black struggle and of the struggles of biblical social communities. For this purpose a materialist analysis of the texts of Micah and Luke 1 and 2 and is undertaken. This is followed by an outline of a black biblical hermeneutical appropriation of the texts. It is concluded that the category of "struggle" is a fundamental hermeneutical tool in a materialist biblical hermeneutics of liberation. Using this category one can read the Bible backwards, investigating the questions of which its texts are answers, the problems of which its discourses are solutions. The point of a biblical hermeneutics of liberation is to uncover the struggles of which the texts are a product, a record, a site and a weapon. For black theology, the questions and concepts needed to interrogate the biblical texts in this way must be sought in the experiences of the most oppressed and exploited in black history and culture. What form such an exercise may take is illustrated by a study of the book of Micah and Luke 1 and 2. Two significant findings follow.The class and ideological contradictions of black history and culture necessitate the emergence of a plurality of black theologies of liberation. Similar contradictions in the Bible necessitate a plurality of contradictory hermeneutical appropriations of the same texts.

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Books on the topic "Black theology. Liberation theology. South Africa"

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Black theology USA and South Africa: Politics, culture, and liberation. Maryknoll, N.Y: Orbis Books, 1989.

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Liberation theology in Tanzania and South Africa: A first world interpretation. Lund, Sweden: Lund University Press, 1988.

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West, Gerald Oakley. Biblical hermeneutics of liberation: Modes of reading the Bible in the South African context. 2nd ed. Maryknoll, N.Y: Orbis Books, 1995.

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A Black future?: Jesus and salvation in South Africa. London: SCM Press, 1990.

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Nicolson, Ronald. A black future?: Jesus and salvation in South Africa. London: SCM, 1990.

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Biblical hermeneutics of liberation: Modes of reading the Bible in the South African context. 2nd ed. Pietermaritzburg: Cluster Publications, 1995.

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Motlhabi, Mokgethi B. G. African theology/black theology in South Africa: Looking back, moving on. Pretoria: University of South Africa, 2008.

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Motlhabi, Mokgethi B. G. African theology/black theology in South Africa: Looking back, moving on. Pretoria: University of South Africa, 2008.

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African theology/black theology in South Africa: Looking back, moving on. Pretoria: University of South Africa, 2008.

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African theology: Inculturation and liberation. Maryknoll, N.Y: Orbis Books, 1993.

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Mofokeng, Takatso. "Black Theology in South Africa: Achievements, Problems and Prospects." In Christianity Amidst Apartheid, 37–54. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20527-1_4.

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Motlhabi, Mokgethi. "The history of black theology in South Africa." In The Cambridge Companion to Black Theology, 221–33. Cambridge University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ccol9780521879866.017.

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Kee, Alistair. "The Redemption of the Poor: Black Theology in South Africa." In The Rise and Demise of Black Theology, 71–99. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351145527-3.

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Aarde, Timothy van. "The four waves of black theology in South Africa and contexts of political struggle." In The Routledge Handbook of African Theology, 105–20. Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315107561-10.

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