Becoming transdisciplinary theologians: Wentzel van Huyssteen, Paul Cilliers and Constantine Stanislavski

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies

 
 
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Title Becoming transdisciplinary theologians: Wentzel van Huyssteen, Paul Cilliers and Constantine Stanislavski
 
Creator Loubser, Gys
 
Subject Epistemology; Theology; Complexity; Acting; Philosophy Transdisciplinarity; Complexity; Postfoundationalist; Empathy
Description Firstly, I discuss deferent descriptions of transdisciplinary research and argue that Wentzel van Huyssteen’s postfoundationalist description of epistemology provides a progenitive epistemology for a variety of transdisciplinary engagements. Secondly, I suggest that complexity, as described by Paul Cilliers, can be rooted in a postfoundationalist epistemology and illuminates the facilitation of transdisciplinary research. Based on this description and facilitation of transdisciplinarity, I argue that transdisciplinary theologians need to be skilled empathisers because knowledge is generated and exchanged by embodied agents, embedded in particular disciplines. In a transversal move I suggest that, given contemporary research on empathic skills and the embodied aspects of empathy, Stanislavski’s approach to the training of actors illuminates a way in which we can train transdisciplinary theologians. The training develops empathetic skills through both mental and embodied exercises and equips students to generate empathy in different contexts without following set rules.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
Contributor The National Research foundation (South Africa), the Centre for Theological Inquiry (Princeton) and the Centre for Studies in Complexity (Stellenbosch)
Date 2015-07-02
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — Literature review
Format text/html application/octet-stream text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/hts.v71i3.2901
 
Source HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies; Vol 71, No 3 (2015); 9 pages 2072-8050 0259-9422
 
Language eng
 
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