Relationships are building blocks to social justice : cases of biblical justice and African Ubuntu
| dc.contributor.author | Kgatla, Selaelo Thias | |
| dc.contributor.email | thias.kgatla@up.ac.za | en_ZA |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-11-22T09:32:18Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-11-22T09:32:18Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016-10-28 | |
| dc.description | This research is part of the project, ‘The role of German Churches in the demise of apartheid in South Africa’, directed by Prof. Dr Thias Kgatla, Department of Missiology and Science of Religion, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria. | en_ZA |
| dc.description.abstract | The entire Bible is full of themes calling humans to live justly with one another and fear God who is the author of justice. The first book of the Bible, Genesis, carries the story of God’s relationship with his people. Their relationship is bound by social justice and mutual love in reciprocity. This article argues that African Ubuntu has an affinity with the Bible’s message of justice and mutual caring for one another. Ubuntu presupposes that humans were created in God’s image and indicates that characteristics such as kindness, charity, equality, love of one’s neighbours and voluntarily dispensing justice to others are present in human life. God created humans to be bound to one another in caring love, coexistence and total dependence. In today’s world, social justice requires good judgement from those who are in privileged positions to implement it. | en_ZA |
| dc.description.department | Science of Religion and Missiology | en_ZA |
| dc.description.librarian | am2016 | en_ZA |
| dc.description.uri | http://www.hts.org.za | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Kgatla, S.T., 2016, ‘Relationships are building blocks to social justice: Cases of biblical justice and African Ubuntu’, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 72(1), a3239. http://dx.DOI. org/ 10.4102/hts.v72i1.3239. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0259-9422 (print) | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2072-8050 (online) | |
| dc.identifier.other | 10.4102/hts.v72i1.3239 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/58242 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | AOSIS Open Journals | en_ZA |
| dc.rights | © 2016. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Relationships | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Social justice | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Biblical justice | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | African Ubuntu | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Mutual caring | en_ZA |
| dc.title | Relationships are building blocks to social justice : cases of biblical justice and African Ubuntu | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Article | en_ZA |