"WE WANT TO SPEAK FOR OURSELVES !", THE AGENDA OF AFRICAN INITIATED CHURCHES ON DECOLONISED AND TRANSFORMATIVE THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
The noise is very loud around what could be a relevant decolonized education in Africa, South Africa in particular. We saw protested matches at tertiary institutions crying out loud against what is called a colonized education and curriculum. There was a need for a decolonized education based on a r...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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University of South Africa
[2019]
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Missionalia
Year: 2019, Volume: 47, Issue: 2, Pages: 193-211 |
IxTheo Classification: | FB Theological education KBN Sub-Saharan Africa KDG Free church KDJ Ecumenism NBN Ecclesiology NCC Social ethics |
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Summary: | The noise is very loud around what could be a relevant decolonized education in Africa, South Africa in particular. We saw protested matches at tertiary institutions crying out loud against what is called a colonized education and curriculum. There was a need for a decolonized education based on a relevant curriculum as a solution to the problem at hand. Theological education is not immune to this problem because it is also a product of the apartheid and colonial project. The answer to the question as to what is a relevant theological education today, that is decolonized based on a peoples' curriculum still stands unanswered. This article seeks to present a contribution of the ignored or rather despised voice on this debate, the African Initiated Churches (AICs). It proposes a solution from the AICs perspective where they speak by themselves, hence the title of this articles; "We want to speak for ourselves
!" I will approach this project by investigating who the AICs are, their ecclesiology and ecumenical mission praxis, their position on social justice as a means of understanding the strength behind their anti-colonial drive. At the end, a relevant theological education curriculum will be proposed. |
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ISSN: | 2312-878X |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Missionalia
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.7832/47-2-344 |