Original Research - Special Collection: Urban Public Theology in South Africa

Towards a fusion of horizons: Thematic contours for an urban public theological praxis-agenda in South Africa

Stephan de Beer, Ignatius Swart
HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies | Vol 70, No 3 | a2812 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v70i3.2812 | © 2014 Stephan de Beer, Ignatius Swart | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 25 August 2014 | Published: 20 November 2014

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Stephan de Beer, Centre for Contextual Ministry, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Ignatius Swart, Research Institute for Theology and Religion, University of South Africa, South Africa

Abstract

This article proposes a ‘fusion of horizons’ in constructing urban public theologies in South Africa. This is done through the introduction of five interrelated themes that have emerged from the on-going knowledge and idea production by a distinguishable counterpoint in contemporary scholarly, intellectual and activist engagement with the urban, in the authors’ own South African context but also wider internationally. In advancing a praxis-agenda for urban public theology, the authors subsequently identify the following, albeit not exhaustive, themes: southern urbanisms and the factor of unprecedented urban migration; ‘right to the city’ and urbanisation from below; a reclaiming of the commons; the making of ‘good cities’; and actors of faith in relation to urban social life.

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