What is so theological about a faculty of theology at a public university? Athens – Berlin – Pretoria

dc.contributor.authorBuitendag, Johan
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-24T08:12:53Z
dc.date.available2020-01-24T08:12:53Z
dc.date.issued2019-06-18
dc.descriptionThis research is part of the project, ‘University, Education and Theology’, directed by Prof. Dr Johan Buitendag, Department of Historical and Systematic Theology, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractIn this article, the author engages with the question ‘what is so theological about theological education?’, which he calls a genealogy of theology. This matter is approached from a very specific vantage point as the author was the former dean of the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Pretoria (South Africa) and has engaged in this research project over the past 5 years, as the Faculty was under severe review as to its composition, and ultimately its very future. This article endeavours to bring to the surface the underlying theology of the author and the paradigm he is operating from. It concludes with a definition of theology as he sees it, but with the explicit qualification of it being situated at a researchintensive university competing for a notable position on the ranking indexes of world universities. A new niche is thus opening up for theology (vis-à-vis a seminary or even a Christian university), namely, a ‘scholarly endeavour of believers in the public sphere in order to inquire into a multi-dimensional reality in a manner that matters’.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentDogmatics and Christian Ethicsen_ZA
dc.description.librarianam2020en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://www.hts.org.zaen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationBuitendag, J., 2019, ‘What is so theological about a faculty of theology at a public university? Athens – Berlin– Pretoria’, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 75(4), a5488. https://DOI.org/10.4102/hts.v75i4.5488.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0259-9422 (print)
dc.identifier.issn2072-8050 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.4102/hts.v75i4.5488
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/72911
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherAOSIS Open Journalsen_ZA
dc.rights© 2019. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.en_ZA
dc.subjectTheological educationen_ZA
dc.subjectMetarealityen_ZA
dc.subjectCritical realismen_ZA
dc.subjectSocietyen_ZA
dc.subjectFaith communitiesen_ZA
dc.subjectEcodomyen_ZA
dc.subjectTransformationen_ZA
dc.subjectDecolonisationen_ZA
dc.subjectLuhmannen_ZA
dc.subjectBhaskaren_ZA
dc.subjectQS World Ranking of Universitiesen_ZA
dc.subjectUniversity of Pretoria (UP)en_ZA
dc.subjectJurgen Moltmann (1926- )en_ZA
dc.subject.otherTheology articles SDG-01
dc.subject.otherSDG-01: No poverty
dc.subject.otherTheology articles SDG-04
dc.subject.otherSDG-04: Quality education
dc.subject.otherTheology articles SDG-10
dc.subject.otherSDG-10: Reduced inequalities
dc.subject.otherTheology articles SDG-16
dc.subject.otherSDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions
dc.subject.otherTheology articles SDG-17
dc.subject.otherSDG-17: Partnerships for the goals
dc.titleWhat is so theological about a faculty of theology at a public university? Athens – Berlin – Pretoriaen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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