Die dans van die Christen: Die genealogie van tyd en ruimte in ’n postmoderne samelewing

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies

 
 
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Title Die dans van die Christen: Die genealogie van tyd en ruimte in ’n postmoderne samelewing
 
Creator Buitendag, Johan
 
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Description The Christian dance: The genealogy of time and space in a postmodern societyThe point of departure of this article is the thesis that the understanding of reality is based on the concepts of time and space. In order to communicate the quintessence of postmodernism the concepts of time and space need to be deconstructed. After a brief intermezzo with physics, the article emphasises that the perspectival dimension is not fixed but in flux. Dancing, which expresses movement, is an apt metaphor for conveying the multifaceted character of postmodernism. The Genesis 1 account of creation is read from this perspective and inversely, society is looked at from this Biblical viewpoint in terms of the relationships between God, man and nature. The article concludes with an insight from Jean Baudrillard that simulations are not imitations of reality, but a widespread cultural condition and not an “event” restricted to particular technology.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
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Date 2002-10-22
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — —
Format application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/hts.v58i3.586
 
Source HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies; Vol 58, No 3 (2002); 940-955 2072-8050 0259-9422
 
Language eng
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 2002 Johan Buitendag https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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