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Holistic redemptive pastoral ministry in the fragmented transit hall of existence
Submitted: 08 October 2009 | Published: 01 October 2010
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Johann-Albrecht Meylahn, University of Pretoria, South AfricaAbstract
This paper is an attempt to address this multi-narrative existence without imposing yet another grand narrative. Thus it focuses on offering a narrative space that is, (1) holistic, in the sense that it addresses all the different narratives, (2) pastoral, in that it addresses the person and (3) redemptive, in that it offers something new, meaningful and hopeful. Such a narrative space moves the church from its ‘ghetto mindset’, where traditions and values are maintained, to being fully open and vulnerable to the present reality, whilst yearning for the Messianic to reveal an alternative future.
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