dc.contributor.author |
Kgatla, Selaelo Thias
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dc.date.accessioned |
2016-11-22T09:32:18Z |
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dc.date.available |
2016-11-22T09:32:18Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2016-10-28 |
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dc.description |
This research is part of the
project, ‘The role of German
Churches in the demise of
apartheid in South Africa’,
directed by Prof. Dr Thias
Kgatla, Department of
Missiology and Science of
Religion, Faculty of Theology,
University of Pretoria. |
en_ZA |
dc.description.abstract |
The entire Bible is full of themes calling humans to live justly with one another and fear God
who is the author of justice. The first book of the Bible, Genesis, carries the story of God’s
relationship with his people. Their relationship is bound by social justice and mutual love in
reciprocity. This article argues that African Ubuntu has an affinity with the Bible’s message of
justice and mutual caring for one another. Ubuntu presupposes that humans were created in
God’s image and indicates that characteristics such as kindness, charity, equality, love of one’s
neighbours and voluntarily dispensing justice to others are present in human life. God created
humans to be bound to one another in caring love, coexistence and total dependence. In
today’s world, social justice requires good judgement from those who are in privileged
positions to implement it. |
en_ZA |
dc.description.department |
Science of Religion and Missiology |
en_ZA |
dc.description.librarian |
am2016 |
en_ZA |
dc.description.uri |
http://www.hts.org.za |
en_ZA |
dc.identifier.citation |
Kgatla, S.T., 2016,
‘Relationships are building
blocks to social justice: Cases
of biblical justice and African
Ubuntu’, HTS Teologiese
Studies/Theological Studies
72(1), a3239. http://dx.DOI.
org/ 10.4102/hts.v72i1.3239. |
en_ZA |
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.v72i1.3239 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2263/58242 |
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dc.language.iso |
en |
en_ZA |
dc.publisher |
AOSIS Open Journals |
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dc.rights |
© 2016. The Authors.
Licensee: AOSIS. This work
is licensed under the
Creative Commons
Attribution License. |
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dc.subject |
Relationships |
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dc.subject |
Social justice |
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dc.subject |
Biblical justice |
en_ZA |
dc.subject |
African Ubuntu |
en_ZA |
dc.subject |
Mutual caring |
en_ZA |
dc.title |
Relationships are building blocks to social justice : cases of biblical justice and African Ubuntu |
en_ZA |
dc.type |
Article |
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