Social identity, ethnicity and the gospel of reconciliation

dc.contributor.authorGoroncy, Jason A.
dc.date.accessioned2013-10-22T10:41:23Z
dc.date.available2013-10-22T10:41:23Z
dc.date.issued2013-09-02
dc.descriptionRev. Dr Jason Goroncy is participating as research fellow with Prof. Dr Yolanda Dreyer, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, South Africa.en
dc.description.abstractThis article attends to the relationship between our ethnic, social and cultural identities, and the creation of the new communal identity embodied in the Christian community. Drawing upon six New Testament texts – Ephesians 2:11–22; Galatians 3:27–28, 1 Corinthians 7:17–24 and 10:17, 1 Peter 2:9–11 and Revelation 21:24–26 – it is argued that the creation of a new and prime identity in Christ does not abrogate other creaturely identities, even as it calls for the removal of such as boundary markers. Catholicity, in other words, is intrinsically related to the most radical particularity, and demands an ongoing work of discernment and of judgement vis-à-vis the gospel itself. Those baptised into Christ are now to live in the reality of Christ who is both the boundary and centre of their existence, a boundary which includes all humanity in its cultural, ethnic, gendered, social and historical particularities.en
dc.description.librarianam2013en
dc.description.librarianmn2013
dc.description.urihttp://www.hts.org.zaen
dc.identifier.citationGoroncy, J.A., 2013, 'Social identity, ethnicity and the gospel of reconciliation', HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 69(1), Art. #2007, 14 pages. http://dx.DOI.org/ 10.4102/hts.v69i1.2007en
dc.identifier.issn0259-9422 (print)
dc.identifier.issn2072-8050 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.4102/hts.v69i1.2007
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/32107
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherAOSIS Open Journalsen
dc.rights© 2013. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS OpenJournals. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.en
dc.subjectEthnicityen
dc.subjectApocalyptic identityen
dc.subjectCreation and socio-cultural identitiesen
dc.subjectDivine crisis and the end of idolatrous associationen
dc.subjectGospel of reconciliationen
dc.subject.lcshTheology, Practical -- South Africaen
dc.titleSocial identity, ethnicity and the gospel of reconciliationen
dc.typeArticleen

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