Abstract:
From a narrative
theological perspective, the article tells the story of the church which has always been
characterised by a tension between unity and plurality. The article illustrates that the root of
the tension can be found in a binary mentality which traps the church in an endless labyrinth
and keeps the it from being ‘A Broad Place’, a ’wide open space’. The article suggests that
re-telling the church’s grand narrative of the Trinity sustains the re-telling of the church’s
narrative in the changing environment of a secular society.
Description:
This article is the first of
two which represent a
reworked version of aspects
from Chapter 1 of the PhD
dissertation (University of
Pretoria), entitled ‘Die kerk
as heterotopiese ruimte: ‘n
Trinitariese model vir die
derde millennium’, with
Prof. Dr Johan Buitendag as
supervisor.
