Redressing the past, doing justice in the present: Necessary paradoxes
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
| Field | Value | |
| Title | Redressing the past, doing justice in the present: Necessary paradoxes | |
| Creator | van Wyk, Tanya | |
| Description | In this contribution, the connection between redressing the past and doing justice in the present is explored by presenting the notion of ‘paradox’ as a response to ‘binary thinking’. In this regard, ‘paradox’ denotes contradictory, yet interrelated aspects that exist simultaneously. ‘Binary thinking’ refers to either/or categorical aspects that cannot co-exist. Two paradoxes are explored as a response to increasing polarisation because of a struggle in redressing past injustices: the paradox of remembering and forgetting and the paradox of difference and sameness. This is done by bringing the work of the South African practical theologian, Denise Ackermann, in conversation with the work of the Croatian systematic theologian, Miroslav Volf. From different origins and experiences, both offer a way forward, and a way to move on beyond the devastation that is caused by dealing with injustice, difference and memory in a polarising fashion. The contribution concludes with a reflection on the notion of ‘ceding space’ from a Trinitarian theological perspective. The ceding of space is proposed as act of transformation, as the outcome of the ideas proposed by Ackermann and Volf, and as a way to live together, ‘after the locusts’. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2019-11-12 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/hts.v75i4.5625 | |
| Source | HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies; Vol 75, No 4 (2019); 9 pages 2072-8050 0259-9422 | |
| Language | eng | |
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