The parables of Jesus as critique on food security systems for vulnerable households in urban townships
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Van Eck, Ernest
Mashinini, Meshack Mandla
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OpenJournals Publishing
Abstract
A recent empirical study on food shortage in South African urban townships indicates that
food shortage embodies multi-faceted aspects with broader social implications, such as the
sense of personal dignity, the ability to openly associate with others and a loss of self-identity.
It is argued that the parables of Jesus, when read as symbols of social transformation, provide
a critique on food insecurity systems in urban townships. It is proposed that the parables of
Jesus serve as the conduits for a societal and perhaps ecclesial reorientation with regard to the
conditions of hunger, in the light of the vision and values of the kingdom of God.
Description
This research is part of the
project, ‘Socio-Cultural
Readings’, directed by Prof.
Dr Ernest van Eck,
Department of New
Testament Studies, Faculty
of Theology, University of
Pretoria.
This article represents a reworked version of aspects from the PhD dissertation of Meshack Mandla Mashinini, titled The parables of Jesus as critique on food security systems for vulnerable households in urban townships, in the Department of New Testament Studies, University of Pretoria, with Prof. Dr Ernest van Eck as supervisor.
This article represents a reworked version of aspects from the PhD dissertation of Meshack Mandla Mashinini, titled The parables of Jesus as critique on food security systems for vulnerable households in urban townships, in the Department of New Testament Studies, University of Pretoria, with Prof. Dr Ernest van Eck as supervisor.
Keywords
Kingdom of God, South African urban townships, Parables of Jesus, Food insecurity systems
Sustainable Development Goals
Citation
Van Eck, E. & Mashinini,
M.M., 2016, ‘The parables
of Jesus as critique on
food security systems
for vulnerable
households in urban
townships’, HTS Teologiese
Studies/Theological Studies
72(3), a3252. http://dx.DOI.
org/ 10.4102/hts.v72i3.3252.