dc.contributor.author |
Tettey, Smith Francis Korbla
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dc.contributor.author |
Nel, Malan
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dc.date.accessioned |
2020-10-15T06:37:09Z |
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dc.date.available |
2020-10-15T06:37:09Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2020-06-03 |
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dc.description |
This article forms part
of the research project,
‘Congregational Studies’ of
Prof. Malan Nel, Department
Practical Theology, Faculty
of Theology and Religion,
University of Pretoria. |
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dc.description |
This article was developed from a paper presented by Smith Francis Tettey to the Society for Practical Theology in South Africa (SPTSA)
conference held at the North West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa from 16 to 19 January, 2019. In this article, authors
introduce the spiritual leadership capital (SLC) theory, which was advanced in a PhD research completed under the leadership of Prof.
Malan Nel in April 2018 in the Department of Practical Theology, University of Pretoria. The thesis was titled, ‘Spiritual Leadership
Capital: A Theology of Poverty in Congregational Development’. (http://hdl.handle.net/2263/67916) |
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dc.description.abstract |
This article explores how ministerial and leadership formation could be enabled to adopt
transformational diaconia in addressing poverty in South Africa, engaging in ways in which
pastoral care and leadership formation can respond to the addressing of poverty. The fact
that transformation aims at changing the worldviews, paradigms and approaches to life and
problem solving informs the author’s concept of transformational diaconia, which was
proposed as an aspect of spiritual leadership capital (SLC), defined as, ‘The inner virtues
afforded individuals by their spirituality in formulating their leadership paradigms which
contributes to social capital formation for addressing social problems’. Spiritual leadership
capital is hereby argued to be a transformative spirituality that can enable an understanding
and sustainable responses to poverty and other social problems. This is needed for Africa
and particularly for the present day South Africa, seemingly a country with the best
infrastructure in Africa; yet its poverty seems pronounced because the dregs of apartheid
still lurk in the social fibre, where poor people blame rich people for their plight and vice
versa. Bowers Du Toit’s view that ‘[m]ost congregations respond to poverty by providing
relief and not empowerment’, re-echoes here. From a mixed-methods research, SLC is a
theory recently advanced as a congregational development paradigm and a theology of
poverty, which views public theology as an educative praxis that can respond to
transformational needs in poverty-related contexts. The authors suggest that for a Church
that is responsive to the plight of society, fresh empowerment approaches to address poverty
are needed. |
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dc.description.department |
Practical Theology |
en_ZA |
dc.description.librarian |
am2020 |
en_ZA |
dc.description.uri |
http://www.hts.org.za |
en_ZA |
dc.identifier.citation |
Tettey, S.F.K. & Nel, M., 2020,
‘Transformational diaconia as
educative praxis in care
within the present povertystricken
South African
context’, HTS Teologiese
Studies/Theological Studies
76(2), a5666. https://DOI.org10.4102/hts.v76i2.5666. |
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.v76i2.5666 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2263/76491 |
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dc.language.iso |
en |
en_ZA |
dc.publisher |
AOSIS Open Journals |
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dc.rights |
© 2020. The Authors.
Licensee: AOSIS. This work
is licensed under the
Creative Commons
Attribution License. |
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dc.subject |
Transformational diaconia |
en_ZA |
dc.subject |
Reconstructive compassion |
en_ZA |
dc.subject |
Public theology |
en_ZA |
dc.subject |
Pastoral care |
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dc.subject |
Poverty |
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dc.subject |
Educative praxis |
en_ZA |
dc.subject |
South African context |
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dc.subject |
Spiritual leadership capital (SLC) |
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dc.subject.other |
Theology articles SDG-01 |
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dc.subject.other |
SDG-01: No poverty |
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dc.subject.other |
Theology articles SDG-04 |
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dc.subject.other |
SDG-04: Quality education |
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dc.subject.other |
Theology articles SDG-08 |
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dc.subject.other |
SDG-08: Decent work and economic growth |
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dc.subject.other |
Theology articles SDG-10 |
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dc.subject.other |
SDG-10: Reduced inequalities |
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dc.subject.other |
Theology articles SDG-16 |
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dc.subject.other |
SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions |
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dc.title |
Transformational diaconia as educative praxis in care within the present poverty-stricken South African context |
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dc.type |
Article |
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