Vital force as a triangulated concept of nature and s(S)pirit

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Nalwamba, Kuzipa M.B.
Buitendag, Johan

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AOSIS Open Journals

Abstract

This article explores and seeks to appropriate theologically the African notion of vital force as a relational, non-reductionist ecological concept that would enrich the Christian doctrine of pneumatheology. The understanding that relational and pneumatological categories are viable within the theology–science dialogue is the broader framework within which this article is conceived. The relationship between natural theology and revelation provides an epistemological standpoint that does not divorce Spirit and reality.

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Dr Kuzipa M.B. Nalwamba is participating in the research project, ‘Theology of Nature’, directed by Prof. Dr Johan Buitendag, Department Dogmatics and Christian Ethics, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria.
This article is a reworked version of aspects from the PhD thesis of Kuzipa M.B. Nalwamba, titled ‘Vital Force as a Triangulated Concept of Nature and s(S)pirit’, in the Department of Dogmatics and Christian Ethics, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria with Prof Johan Buitendag as supervisor. (http://hdl.handle.net/2263/61197)

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Christian doctrine, Pneumatheology, Spirit, Reality, Cosmic Spirit, Force-fields, Pneuma-theology, Triangulation, Vital force

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Nalwamba, K.M.B. & Buitendag, J., 2017, ‘Vital force as a triangulated concept of nature and s(S)pirit’, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 73(3), 4506. https://DOI.org/ 10.4102/hts.v73i3.4506.