Exploring the present discourse on the Early Church Fathers’ teachings on poverty in order to develop proposals for the Johannesburg church’s engagement with the poor

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dc.contributor.advisor Van Niekerk, A.S. (Attie) en
dc.contributor.postgraduate Smith, Thomas Jacobus en
dc.date.accessioned 2013-09-07T13:02:20Z
dc.date.available 2011-09-27 en
dc.date.available 2013-09-07T13:02:20Z
dc.date.created 2011-09-08 en
dc.date.issued 2011-09-27 en
dc.date.submitted 2011-09-26 en
dc.description Dissertation (MA(Theol))--University of Pretoria, 2011. en
dc.description.abstract In post-Apartheid South Africa the issues relating to poverty and specifically missional engagement with the poor remains a priority. In order to foster creative imaginations for this missional task, this research focuses on the discourse on four Early Church Fathers’ engagement with the poor. This discourse was brought into dialogue with four Afrikaans Johannesburg churches through phenomenological interviews. Using Susan Holman’s interpretive framework of sensing, sharing and embodying the kingdom dialogue between the teachings and praxis of Clement of Alexandria, John Chrysostom, Basil the Great, Augustine and four Johannesburg churches were explored in order to develop proposals for the Johannesburg church’s mission towards the poor. en
dc.description.availability unrestricted en
dc.description.department Science of Religion and Missiology en
dc.identifier.citation Smith, TJ 2011, Exploring the present discourse on the Early Church Fathers’ teachings on poverty in order to develop proposals for the Johannesburg church’s engagement with the poor, MA(Theol) dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28207 > en
dc.identifier.other E11/9/5/gm en
dc.identifier.upetdurl http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-09262011-115524/ en
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28207
dc.language.iso en
dc.publisher University of Pretoria en_ZA
dc.rights © 2011, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. en
dc.subject Johannesburg en
dc.subject Afrikaans churches en
dc.subject Post-apartheid en
dc.subject Rich en
dc.subject Poor en
dc.subject Early church fathers en
dc.subject Mission en
dc.subject Poverty en
dc.subject Wealth en
dc.subject UCTD en_US
dc.title Exploring the present discourse on the Early Church Fathers’ teachings on poverty in order to develop proposals for the Johannesburg church’s engagement with the poor en
dc.type Dissertation en


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