Kerkwees in die saeculum vandag, Deel 1 : Eenheid te midde van veelheid

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Van Wyk, Tanya

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OpenJournals Publishing

Abstract

From a narrative theological perspective, the article tells the story of the church which has always been characterised by a tension between unity and plurality. The article illustrates that the root of the tension can be found in a binary mentality which traps the church in an endless labyrinth and keeps the it from being ‘A Broad Place’, a ’wide open space’. The article suggests that re-telling the church’s grand narrative of the Trinity sustains the re-telling of the church’s narrative in the changing environment of a secular society.

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This article is the first of two which represent a reworked version of aspects from Chapter 1 of the PhD dissertation (University of Pretoria), entitled ‘Die kerk as heterotopiese ruimte: ‘n Trinitariese model vir die derde millennium’, with Prof. Dr Johan Buitendag as supervisor.

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Saeculum, Unity, Eenheid, Veelheid, Plurality

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Van Wyk, T., 2012, ‘Kerkwees in die saeculum vandag, Deel 1: Eenheid te midde van veelheid’, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 68(1), Art. #1281, 9 pages. http://dx.DOI.org/10.4102/hts.v68i1.1281.