Khra table: An attempt at a vulnerable Time-Play-Space for a local practical theological voice seeking global harmonies and offering prophetic discord

Verbum et Ecclesia

 
 
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Title Khra table: An attempt at a vulnerable Time-Play-Space for a local practical theological voice seeking global harmonies and offering prophetic discord
 
Creator Meylahn, Johann-Albrecht
 
Subject Practical Theology; Philosophy of Religion Chora; Heidegger; space; Theology; Derrida
Description This paper sought to investigate a possible grammar for a practical theological voice. The paper begins by reflecting on the different grammars currently dominating the voice of theology in South Africa and seeking a way beyond such dominating grammars towards a more playful grammar that is acutely aware of the incompletion and thus vulnerability of the play as there are unheard voices still to join it. In an attempt to interpret such a space I have made use of Derrida’s understanding and use of Khra and brought to this interpretation a specifically Second Testament and kingdom image of the table. The ‘table’ is a place of invitation, celebration, sharing, hospitality and expectation. By bringing these two together, Khra and table, I sought to describe the space of practical theology, as an open vulnerable grammar, that gives voice to a local theology, which seeks global harmonies and offers prophetic discord in the global dialogue.
 
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Date 2011-08-02
 
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Identifier 10.4102/ve.v32i1.499
 
Source Verbum et Ecclesia; Vol 32, No 1 (2011); 4 pages 2074-7705 1609-9982
 
Language eng
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 2011 Johann-Albrecht Meylahn https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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