Doing theology in multi-world contexts

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Meylahn, Johann-Albrecht

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Abstract

This article seeks to respond to the challenge of doing theology in multi-world contexts, by understanding how these multiple worlds appear. Understanding the role of power in the appearance of these different worlds helps in the deconstruction of dominant worlds, but it leaves one with relativism, and consequently apathy. The article presents a Christo-fiction as a praxis of doing theology in multi-worlds as a way beyond such relativism.

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This research is part of the project, ‘Towards a practical postfoundational theology as public theology in response to the challenges of lived religion in contemporary Southern Africa’, directed by Prof. Dr J.A. Meylahn, Department Practical Theology, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria.

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Deconstruction, Power, Christo-fiction, Relativism, Derrida, Jacques, 1930-2004, Multicultural, Laruelle

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Meylahn, J-A., 2017, ‘Doing theology in multi-world contexts’, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 73(2), a3839. https://doi.org/ 10.4102/hts.v73i2.3839.