Relating to the Poor: Conceptualizations of Christian Diaconal Practice Considered Through the Lens of Human Dignity
This article, although not evolving from any original case study work, represents the concerted effort to critically reflect on diaconia in action (diaconia as actual social practice) and, in that sense, take its focus on practice as the point of departure for theoretical reflection. This is ach...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
[2016]
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Diaconia
Year: 2016, Volume: 7, Issue: 1, Pages: 3-26 |
| IxTheo Classification: | NCC Social ethics RK Charity work |
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| Summary: | This article, although not evolving from any original case study work, represents the concerted effort to critically reflect on diaconia in action (diaconia as actual social practice) and, in that sense, take its focus on practice as the point of departure for theoretical reflection. This is achieved, first, by exploring as a hermeneutical lens an understanding that could be directly related to a so-called negative approach, which strives to attend to how the human dignity of people living in poverty is violated. Second, the article presents separate cases for two conceptualizations of diaconal practice that each in their own right reflect a more profound or developed concern with diaconia as actual Christian social practice: that of Hendrik Pieterse from South Africa and of Susanne Johnson from the United States. Finally, the article utilizes the adopted hermeneutical lens to consider the relational element in the two conceptualizations, the modes of relating to people living in contexts of endemic poverty captured in the process, and, not least important, the images of enhanced human dignity that may or may not be evoked through such actions. |
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| ISSN: | 2196-9027 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Diaconia
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.13109/diac.2016.7.1.3 |