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Author: Klippies Kritzinger

Special Editions, Urban Public Theology in South Africa

Concrete spirituality

Klippies Kritzinger July 30, 2020
Concrete spirituality

This article reflects on a number of liturgical innovations in the worship of Melodi ya Tshwane, an inner-city congregation of the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (URCSA). The focus of the innovations was to implement the understanding of justice in Article 4 of the Confession of Belhar, a confessional standard of the URCSA. The basic contention..

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In City-making from below, Stephan De Beer and Mark Oranje make a case for communities to resist and reconstruct in multiple ways and places as an alternative to 'top-down' urban processes.

"A different political imagination is required, with small communities at the bottom of the urban ladder, if they are to be truly included as participants in urban processes, beneficiaries of urban resources, and contributors to urban well-being. In this instance, 'different' is meant in the sense of shifting from expecting external intervention through planners or politicians ―to an embrace of the urgency to take action as local communities themselves."
Excerpt from City-making from below: A call for communities of resistance and reconstruction.
The full article can be found here: https://www.research.centreforfaithandcommunity.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/TPR-74de-Beer-Oranje.pdf

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No one chooses perpetual struggle and hostility over the place they call home, unless eking out a living in a hostile place is better than the place they call home.

In "How does justice smell? Reflections on space and place, justice and the body" Jacob Meiring reflects on the notions of space and justice from a contemporary theological anthropology perspective.

The full article can be found here: https://www.research.centreforfaithandcommunity.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Meiring-How-does-Justice-smell.pdf

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Homelessness and Covid-19 in the City of Tshwane: Doing liberation theology undercover – A conversation with Ivan Petrella by Stephan de Beer looks at the city of Tshwane's response to the homelessness crisis that arose due to the lockdown.

The full article is available on the HTS Theological Studies journal website here:
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When see the current disconnect between the church and it's people, we are reminded that Black Theology is meant to be an intrinsic part of the liberation story, that it should be and could still be a theology that speaks to core of the African experience.
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