Glas in beeld – beeld in glas. verkondiging in fragment en fragmente van verkondiging ...
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Kloppers, Elsabe
Kloppers, Wian
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OpenJournals Publishing
Abstract
The view that the sermon is an ‘open work of art’, promoted the awareness that the ‘meaning’
of a sermon is not fixed, but that possibilities are presented for the listeners to ‘assign meaning’.
‘Assigning meaning’ does not mean something fully ad libitum: ‘meaning’ is formed within
the guidelines of the text from which a sermon stems. Visual works of art could also be based
on Biblical texts or stories, analysed and interpreted by the artist. The artist could mould the
encounter with the Biblical text into various forms of art, proclaiming the gospel in ways
similar to that of a spoken sermon: a work of art could present possibilities for assigning
meaning related to faith. In this article the new stained glass windows, symbolically depicting
the Liturgical Year, in a Dutch Reformed church in Pretoria, are discussed with a view to the
possibilities they present to form part of experience-based religious education in ‘bringing
home’ stories from the Bible and aspects of the Liturgical Year. Also asked is how they could
function as visual ‘sermons’, speaking and communicating the ‘Word of God’ to the people
inside the church, as well as to people on the outside.
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Schwier verwys na ’n ‘kritiese metodepluralisme’ wat te midde van die ‘vreemdheid van die teks’ onder meer ‘n blik het op die Bybel
as literatuur; wat die rykdom van die Bybelse taal, motiewe, geskiedenisse, beelde, verhale, argumente en literêre strategieë ontgin;
wat vra na die verskillende vorms en tekssoorte – wat die narratiewe, profetiese, voorskriftelike, wysheids- en himniese grondvorme
van die Bybelse polifonie ondersoek; wat ’n oog het vir retoriek en metaforiese strukture. Naas die veelvuldige vorme van tekskritiek
het die sosiaal-historiese, kultuur-antropologiese en kontekstuele of samelewings-betrokke ondersoeke wat gerig is op identiteits- en
geloofsbegronding, sowel as verandering van die praxis, ’n wesenlike plek.
E.K. (Universiteit van Suid-Afrika) was verantwoordelik vir die deel oor die homiletiek en W.K. (Universiteit van Pretoria) die deel oor die loodglasvensters. Beide dele is geïntegreer en verwerk deur die outeurs.
E.K. (Universiteit van Suid-Afrika) was verantwoordelik vir die deel oor die homiletiek en W.K. (Universiteit van Pretoria) die deel oor die loodglasvensters. Beide dele is geïntegreer en verwerk deur die outeurs.
Keywords
Sermon, Visual works of art, Biblical texts, Glass windows
Sustainable Development Goals
Citation
Kloppers, E. & Kloppers, W., 2015, ‘Glas in beeld – beeld in glas. Verkondiging in fragment en fragmente van verkondiging …’, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 71(3), Art. #3044, 8 pages. http://dx.DOI.org/ 10.4102/hts.v71i3.3044