(Praktiese) Teologie : 'n verhaal van twyfel en verbeelding

Abstract

Teologie as 'n verhaal van twyfel en verbeelding moet in teenstelling met die tradisionele benadering tot teologie as 'n stelsel van proposisionele sekerhede verstaan word. Twyfel en verbeelding is 'n onafskeidbare deel van Narratiewe Teologie, soos dit ontwikkel binne 'n Post-Fundamentele teologiese paradigma. Die relevansie van hierdie teologiese paradigma sal bespreek word, as 'n teologie wat • erkenning gee aan eie twyfel • waardering het vir die eie verhaal (tradisie) • interaktief, op 'n interdissiplinêre basis, betrokke is by 'n netwerk van verhale – verhale van hoop en wanhoop, van lyding, van mag en van marginalisering • verbeeldingryk met alternatiewe verhale na vore kan kom Hierdie lesing sal die paradigma van prof Müller se voortgesette navorsingsprogram ondersoek, as deel van die Departement Praktiese Teologie, wat 'n verskeidenheid navorsingsprojekte huisves.

Theology as a story of doubt and imagination is to be understood in contrast to the traditional paradigm of theology as a system of propositional certainty. The construct of doubt and imagination is part and parcel of Narrative Theology and can be linked to Post-Foundational Theology. The relevance of this theological paradigm will be discussed, as a theology which • is in touch with its own doubt • is in touch with its own story (tradition) • can therefore interact with other stories (on a interdisciplanary level) – stories of hope and despair, stories of suffering, stories of power and of marginalisation • can also imagine alternative stories