‘Covenanting for Justice’? On the Accra Document, Reformed Theology and Reformed Ecclesiology

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies

 
 
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Title ‘Covenanting for Justice’? On the Accra Document, Reformed Theology and Reformed Ecclesiology
 
Creator Smit, Dirkie J.
 
Subject — Accra Document; globalisation; reformed theology; justice; ecclesiology
Description The essay provides a brief summary of the main argument of the Accra Document drafted by the World Alliance of Reformed Churches and entitled ‘Covenanting for Justice in the Economy and the Earth’. The focus is on discovering and describing the internal structure, the logic and focus, and thereby some of the most important implicit and explicit theological and ecclesiological convictions, suppositions and claims of the document, as far as possible in its own terminology. It then offers a tentative theological assessment, pointing out four very typical Reformed characteristics of the document, including its typical confessional nature and style. It finally suggests some ecclesiological implications arising from the document, again calling to mind four very specific characteristics of Reformed ecclesiology. On the whole, the essay serves as an invitation to further study, discussion and refl ection on the challenges and calling implied in the document.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
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Date 2009-11-06
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — —
Format application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/hts.v65i1.279
 
Source HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies; Vol 65, No 1 (2009); 6 pages 2072-8050 0259-9422
 
Language eng
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 2009 Dirkie J. Smit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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