Tag: Practical Theology

Social Justice and Reconciliation, Stephan de Beer, Urban Public Theology in South Africa

Change-making in a (post)apartheid city: An auto-ethnographical essay

Stephan de Beer & Wilna de Beer

We reflect on living and doing ministry in a (post)apartheid South African city, negotiating ongoing demographic and sociopolitical transitions and discerning appropriate faith responses. We speak about the inevitability of these transitions, but then suggest that a view of theology and ministry as change-making is not inevitable but a vocation and art to be acknowledged,..

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Faith Based Organisations and Migrations, Faith in the City, Individual Publications, Trans-National Migration, Precarious Housing And Faith-Based Responses

A practical theology of liberation: Mimetic theory, liberation theology and practical theology

Stephan de Beer

In this article, the authors bring two personal journeys together: one author’s liberationist journey, sparked by a search for justice and liberation in the slums of Guatemala City, and the other’s lifelong commitment to practical theology and spatial justice in South Africa. A practical theology of liberation is the result of life experiences in countries..

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