Browsing Theology by UP Author "Vellem, Vuyani Shadrack"

Browsing Theology by UP Author "Vellem, Vuyani Shadrack"

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  • Between two trees : on rediscovering reconciliation in post-1994 South Africa 
    Vellem, Vuyani Shadrack (Church History Society of Southern Africa and Unisa Press, 2018)
    A veiled logic minimises the gift of reconciliation from the poor when we examine the concepts of “reparation” and “deficit” in our discourse of reconciliation within South Africa. Instrumental rationality renders ...
  • Black theology of liberation and radical democracy : a dialogue 
    Vellem, Vuyani Shadrack (University of Stellenbosch, Department of Old and New Testament, 2013)
    Radical Democracy proposes that capitalism should be theorised deeply and furthermore, that the liberal tradition must not be denounced and rejected by the Left. It is possible that what seems to be a ‘confusion,’ or ...
  • Black theology of liberation and the economy of life 
    Vellem, Vuyani Shadrack (Wiley, 2015-07)
    The original sin of capitalism is its relationship with racism, a repugnant expression of White supremacy, therefore to engage the metaphysics of neoliberal economics one must have to confront the symbiotic relationship ...
  • Cracking the Eurocentric code : a battle on the banks of the ‘new blood rivers’ 
    Vellem, Vuyani Shadrack (University of South Africa, Department of Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology, 2018)
    Belief in divine privilege or God’s creation of a volk is fundamental a motif in the propulsion of the superiority of one race against another in the world, ipso facto, the continuous management of systems of knowledge, ...
  • A critical black analysis of the church’s role in the post-apartheid struggle for socio-economic justice 
    Vellem, Vuyani Shadrack (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2013)
    This article reflects on the role of the church in the economic justice discourse post 1994 within the context of a dominant calculative rationality. It is firstly argued that language becomes distorted as a functionary ...
  • A dialogue with Sen’s theory of capabilities and its implications for our national democratic revolution 
    Vellem, Vuyani Shadrack (AOSIS Open Journals, 2016-12-02)
    In ‘traditional’ liberation theological discourse, especially the Latin American strand, the concept of development, desarrollismo, that is developmentalism, has been severely critiqued. In recent times, the interpretation ...
  • Epistemological dialogue as prophetic : a black theological perspective on the land issue 
    Vellem, Vuyani Shadrack (University of Stellenbosch, Department of Old and New Testament, 2016)
    Land is life and land is our mother. The absence of the content of liberation for the dispossessed in theologies that seek to address the question of land is the ‘original’ sin of the debate about land in South Africa. The ...
  • Ideology and spirituality : a critique of Villa-Vicencio's project of reconstruction 
    Vellem, Vuyani Shadrack (Department of Old and New Testament, University of Stellenbosch, 2010)
    The relationship between ideology and spirituality does not only offer a critical view of the project of reconstruction from a Black Theological perspective, but it is also a significant question for the agenda of Black ...
  • Imvuselelo : embers of liberation in South Africa post-1994 
    Vellem, Vuyani Shadrack (AOSIS Open Journals, 2016-11-28)
    The unprecedented cultural consciousness after decades of black cultural suppression in the South African public life since the 1990s summons us to the need to harness African ecclesiopolitical symbols in public life. ...
  • Interlocution and black theology of liberation in the 21st century : a reflection 
    Vellem, Vuyani Shadrack (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2012)
    Before the dawn of democracy in South Africa, in the methodological debates that were associated with who the interlocutor of Black Theology of liberation was, there was a tacit understanding that not everyone who is ...
  • Modern slavery in the post-1994 South Africa? A critical ethical analysis of the National Development Plan promises for unemployment in South Africa 
    Vellem, Vuyani Shadrack (AOSIS OpenJournals Publishing, 2014-11)
    In African ethics, work is not work if it is not related to God or gods. Work, or umsebenzi, is for God or gods ultimately; work without God is the definition of slavery in my interpretation of the African ethical value ...
  • The "Native Experiment" : the formation of the Bantu Presbyterian Church and the defects of faith transplanted on African soil 
    Vellem, Vuyani Shadrack (Unisa Press, 2013-08)
    The missionary institutionalization of the Church of Christ, ipso facto, the formation of the Bantu Presbyterian Church in South Africa (BPC), is a tale of ambivalence and 'original' defects of faith in a visible form of ...
  • Prophetic theology in black theology, with special reference to the Kairos document 
    Vellem, Vuyani Shadrack (OpenJournals Publishing, 2010-10)
    The ‘Protest’ and ‘Confessing’ Models in the streams of Black Theology of liberation provide a creative link between the Prophetic Theology in the Kairos document (KD) and the Black Theology of liberation. Launched in a ...
  • The reformed tradition as public theology 
    Vellem, Vuyani Shadrack (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2013-05-03)
    This article is a South African perspective of a Black African reflection on the publicity of Reformed faith. Whilst the notion of public theology is fairly new, the article argues, it is important to define the ‘public’ ...
  • Spirituality of liberation : a conversation with African religiosity 
    Vellem, Vuyani Shadrack (OpenJournals Publishing, 2014-11-20)
    The arrival of a salvationist, authoritative religiosity through Western Christianity in South Africa, in the company of a capitalist modernity, did not only dismantle and subvert the African indigenous dispensation of ...
  • The task of urban black public theology 
    Vellem, Vuyani Shadrack (AOSIS OpenJournals Publishing, 2014-11)
    Twenty years after the demise of apartheid, a typical South African city remains bifurcated. The mushrooming of squatter camps, mekhukhu, in our big cities, symptomises a history that defined the majority of South Africans ...
  • Tiyo Soga : violence, disruption and dislocation in the white polis 
    Vellem, Vuyani Shadrack (AOSIS Open Journals, 2016-12-02)
    Tiyo Soga must be celebrated as he is the personification of a body of knowledge pertinent to the development of foundational knowledge in examining the violence, disruptions and dislocations of the bodies, knowledge and ...
  • Tumelo le Moruo 
    Vellem, Vuyani Shadrack (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2015-10-08)
    Paleng ya rona batho ba batsho, tumelo ya boKreste e fihlile lefatsheng la rona la Afrika Borwa mmoho le dikgoka tsa ditjhaba tsa boPhirima. BoKreste bo fihlile ka nako ya dintwa tseo mohopolo wa tsona e neng e le ho ...
  • Un-thinking the West : the spirit of doing black theology of liberation in decolonial times 
    Vellem, Vuyani Shadrack (AOSIS Open Journals, 2017-11-22)
    It is indisputable that Black Theology of Liberation (BTL) intentionally un-thinks the West. BTL has its own independent conceptual and theoretical foundations and can hold without the West if it rejects the architecture ...
  • Unshackling the church 
    Vellem, Vuyani Shadrack (OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-11)
    In whose ‘order’, ‘newness’ and ‘foundation’ is ecclesiology based in South Africa? The colonial legacy of pigmentocracy, the cultural domination and annihilation of the indigenous dispensation of black Africans, is not ...