Inclusive Communities : a missional approach to racial inclusivity within the Dutch Reformed Church

dc.contributor.authorRossouw, Pieter Fourie
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-06T07:23:35Z
dc.date.available2016-09-06T07:23:35Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.descriptionThis research was part of the research done for a MA (Theology) at the Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, under the supervision of prof. CJP (Nelus) Niemandt.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis article dealt with racial diversity in homogenous white Afrikaans faith communities such as the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC). This study was partially an account of the researcher’s own discontent with being a minister in the DRC against the backdrop of his own journey of finding a racially integrated identity in a postapartheid South Africa. It focused on the question of how a church like the DRC can play an intentional role in the formation of racially inclusive communities. The study brought together shifts in missional theology, personal reflections from DRC ministers and contemporary studies on whiteness. The researcher looked towards a missional imaginary as a field map for racial diversity in the church. This was mirrored against contemporary studies on white identity in a post-apartheid South Africa. From this conversation the researcher argued for a creative discovery of hybrid identities within white faith communities. Missional exercises such as listening to the stories of strangers, cross cultural pilgrimages and eating together in strange places can assist congregations on this journey.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentScience of Religion and Missiologyen_ZA
dc.description.librarianam2016en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://ojs.reformedjournals.co.za/index.php/stjen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationRossouw, PF 2016, 'Inclusive Communities : a missional approach to racial inclusivity within the Dutch Reformed Church', Stellenbosch Theological Journal, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 381-396.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn2413-9459 (print)
dc.identifier.issn2413-9467 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.17570/stj.2016.v2n1.a19
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/56615
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherStellenbosch University, Faculty of Theologyen_ZA
dc.rights© Pieter de Waal Neethling Trusten_ZA
dc.subjectHybridityen_ZA
dc.subjectMissional imaginationen_ZA
dc.subjectWhitenessen_ZA
dc.subjectDiversityen_ZA
dc.subjectDutch Reformed Church (DRC)en_ZA
dc.titleInclusive Communities : a missional approach to racial inclusivity within the Dutch Reformed Churchen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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