Friendship as a Theological Model: Bonhoeffer, Moltmann and the Trinity
In die Skriflig
| Field | Value | |
| Title | Friendship as a Theological Model: Bonhoeffer, Moltmann and the Trinity | |
| Creator | Kotze, Manitza Noeth, Carike | |
| Description | Friendship has been valued since classical times and is also an important category from a theological perspective; Christians are even called ‘friends of God’ (Jn 15:15). For a theological reflection on friendship, we will be drawing upon the work of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Jürgen Moltmann in this contribution. While numerous differences exist in Bonhoeffer and Moltmann’s theology, both have written about the Christian community extensively. We will examine friendship as the theological environment in which we learn how to relate to others not only privately, but also in the public arena, seeking the common good. Friendship, we argue, should not remain in an enclosed area within the personal relationship where we remain friends with those who are similar to us. Rather, friendship, as a theological model, is the space where we can practice the attributes of friendship to enable us to live this out within the broader society with those with whom we are not necessarily friends, but with all people. Friendship can form the environment for us to be ‘trained’ in the characteristics of theological friendship where we are friends in freedom and without hierarchy, and, in so doing, learn to treat all human beings as equal. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2019-01-28 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/ids.v53i1.2333 | |
| Source | In die Skriflig/In Luce Verbi; Vol 53, No 1 (2019); 7 pages 2305-0853 1018-6441 | |
| Language | eng | |
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