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Meylahn, Johann-Albrecht
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2013-06-14T07:49:20Z |
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2013-06-14T07:49:20Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2013-04-05 |
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This article proposes that South Africa, as multi-lingual country, has unique potential and that
this potential is not to be found in some or other essence of what it means to be African, but
in the daily struggles, frustrations and possibilities of life in a fragmented and divided multilingual
society. In this fragmented and ‘impossible’ society there are moments (maybe rare
moments) of true understanding, communication, reconciliation and forgiveness and these
moments I call ‘Advents of a Rainbow Nation’. Although these Advents can be understood
(made reasonable) via the transversal reasoning of Welsch and Schrag, this article would like
to propose an alternative: to wonder-off in a different non-direction namely into the u-topic
and u-chronic clearing of non-philosophy. Reason cannot receive the Advent as gift (given
without givenness) and thus transforms the Advent into a philosophical event of thought. In
the process of seeking to understand these Advents as events, the Advents are transformed by
a Decision or cut of transversal reasoning, and so the Advents themselves are lost. Therefore,
what is sought in this article is not an understanding (reason) of this Advent, but rather a
wandering in and a wondering at the grace and faith of this Advent. This grace and faith is
the greatest epistemological asset South Africa, as multi-lingual country, can offer a plural
global world as it opens a space for non-philosophical thinking: thus thinking science, religion,
art, literature together in a vision-in-One with theology safe-guarding this vision-in-One
unifacially facing the future. The question is, can South Africans embrace the multiplicity of
the Advent of the Rainbow Nation? Can the Church with her Christ narrative sojourn with
South Africa towards a rainbow nation and thereby facilitate a noological space for multiple
connective intellection, or is she an obstacle towards developing this potential? |
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dc.description.librarian |
am2013 |
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dc.description.librarian |
mn2013 |
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dc.description.uri |
http://www.hts.org.za |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Meylahn, J-A., 2013, ‘The hidden potential of pre-theoretical transversal events or advents of a Rainbow Nation’, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 69(1), Art. #1305, 11 pages. http://dx.DOI.org/ 10.4102/hts.v69i1.1305 |
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dc.identifier.issn |
0259-9422 (print) |
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dc.identifier.issn |
2072-8050 (online) |
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dc.identifier.other |
10.4102/hts.v69i1.1305 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2263/21641 |
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dc.language.iso |
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dc.publisher |
AOSIS Open Journals |
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dc.rights |
© 2013. The Authors.
Licensee: AOSIS
OpenJournals. This work
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Creative Commons
Attribution License. |
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dc.subject |
Rainbow Nation |
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dc.subject |
Pre-theoretical transversal events |
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dc.subject |
Pre-theoretical transversal advents |
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dc.subject.lcsh |
Theology, Practical -- South Africa |
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dc.title |
The hidden potential of pre-theoretical transversal events or advents of a rainbow Nation |
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dc.type |
Article |
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